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Although fascist-style movements advocating race hatred continue to make headlines in twenty-first-century Europe, few would argue that fascism still poses an imminent threat to European democracy. The picture was different in the 1930s when, in Eric Hobsbawm’s words, fascism ‘looked like the wave of the future’ [150: p. 112]. While fascism is a highly complex phenomenon that cannot be attributed to a single cause, it is worth exploring its relation to nationalism. How important was nationalism for the rise of fascism as an ideology and political movement? Was fascism simply nationalism turned radical, as a majority of historians seem to believe? Or are we to follow the advice of those scholars who argue that we should treat nationalism and fascism as two separate historical phenomena? Most of the pertinent literature addresses the pivotal question of the relationship between nationalism and fascism implicitly and en passant rather than systematically [as we shall see further below, the two exceptions are 28 and 163].
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Zimmer, O. (2003). Homeland Nationalism Gone Wild: Nationalism and Fascism. In: Nationalism in Europe, 1890–1940. Studies in European History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-4388-0_5
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