World fascism: a historical encyclopedia

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interwar fascists, on the other hand, gave priority back to national (and, for the Nazis) racial pride as the source of all good and rejected all forms of universalism that would aim to downgrade or destroy nation-states as dangerous abstractions and pipe dreams.

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The Nazis in particular associated such universalism with the Jews and spoke of Marxism as a Jewish world conspiracy.

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Italian Fascists and Nazis alike scorned Marxist egalitarianism, to which they preferred the elitism that went with a belief that “fortune favors the brave.”

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The Marxists called for a global revolution powered by the proletariat, and that fascists rejected out of hand.

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However, the Left has almost from the beginning universally regarded itself as being at the opposite extreme from fascism

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There have been many internal disputes within socialism, and some, such as the followers of Marx, have excommunicated other brands that did not espouse such doctrines as dialectical materialism.