Stanley G. Payne
Stanley G. Payne's Fascism: Comparison and Definition (1980) uses a lengthy itemized list of characteristics to identify fascism, including:
- the creation of an authoritarian state
- a regulated, state-integrated economic sector
- fascist symbolism
- anti-liberalism
- anti-communism
- anti-conservatism.
As the common aim of all fascist movements he sees elimination of the autonomy, or in some cases the existence of, large-scale capitalism.
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