Abstract
By concentrating on the reasons for the failure of specific forms of British fascism primarily from a historiographical and Anglocentric point of view, it is easy to lose sight of structural causes at work which arguably help determine the fate of any specimen of the fascist genus. At the risk of disconcerting or alienating readers concerned with the unique events and facts which make up history in the sense of ‘how it actually was’, this essay will concentrate on sketching out a model designed to throw into relief the factors which condition its viability as a genus of modern political ideology. The aim is bring out the fact that the failure of the individual fascisms which have been the subject of earlier chapters was in no way exceptional, but part of a pattern exhibited by nearly all their blood relatives in other countries.
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Griffin, R. (1996). British Fascism: The Ugly Duckling. In: Cronin, M. (eds) The Failure of British Fascism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24758-5_8
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