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Nietzsche's argument that "God is dead", coinciding with his attack on the "herd mentality" of Christianity, on democracy, and on modern collectivism, his concept of the Übermensch, and his advocacy o... 0.950

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Simplified: Nietzsche's argument that God is dead coinciding with his attack on the herd mentality of Christianity on democracy and on modern collectivism his con...

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New theories of social and political psychology rejected the notion of human behaviour being governed by rational choice and instead claimed that emotion was more influential in political issues than... 0.950

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Simplified: New theories of social and political psychology rejected the notion of human behaviour being governed by rational choice and instead claimed that emot...

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Historian George Mosse similarly analyzed fascism as an inheritor of the mass ideology and civil religion of the French Revolution, as well as a result of the brutalization of societies in 1914–1918. 0.950

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Simplified: George Mosse analyzed fascism as an inheritor of the mass ideology and civil religion of the French Revolution as well as a result of the brutalizatio...

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The theme was based on a revolt against materialism, rationalism, positivism, bourgeois society, and democracy. 0.950

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Simplified: The theme was based on a revolt against materialism rationalism positivism bourgeois society and democracy

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Bergson's claim of the existence of an élan vital, or vital instinct, centred upon free choice and rejected the processes of materialism and determinism; this challenged Marxism. 0.950

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Simplified: Bergson's claim of the existence of an élan vital centred upon free choice and rejected the processes of materialism and determinism this challenged M...

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Historians such as Irene Collins and Howard C. Payne see Napoleon III, who ran a 'police state' and suppressed the media, as a forerunner of fascism. 0.950

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Simplified: Irene Collins and Howard C Payne see Napoleon III as a forerunner of fascism

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According to David Thomson, the Italian Risorgimento of 1871 led to the 'nemesis of fascism'. 0.950

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Simplified: David Thomson says the Italian Risorgimento of 1871 led to the nemesis of fascism

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Their intellectual school considered the individual as only one part of the larger collectivity, which should not be viewed as a numerical sum of atomized individuals. 0.950

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Simplified: Their intellectual school considered the individual as only one part of the larger collectivity which should not be viewed as a numerical sum of atomi...

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The fin-de-siècle generation supported emotionalism, irrationalism, subjectivism, and vitalism. 0.950

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Simplified: The fin-de-siècle generation supported emotionalism irrationalism subjectivism and vitalism

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In his work The Ruling Class (1896), Gaetano Mosca developed the theory that claims that in all societies an "organized minority" would dominate and rule over an "disorganized majority", stating that... 0.950

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Simplified: Gaetano Mosca developed the theory that in all societies an organized minority would dominate and rule over an disorganized majority stating there are...

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J. Edgar Hoover, longtime FBI director and ardent anti-communist, wrote extensively of red fascism. 0.950

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Simplified: J Edgar Hoover wrote extensively of red fascism

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Italian fascism gravitated to the right in the early 1920s. 0.950

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Simplified: Italian fascism gravitated to the right in the early 1920s.

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Chinese Marxists used the term to denounce the Soviet Union during the Sino-Soviet split, and the Soviets used the term to denounce Chinese Marxists, in addition to social democracy, coining a new ter... 0.950

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Simplified: Chinese Marxists used the term to denounce the Soviet Union during the Sino-Soviet split Soviets used the term to denounce Chinese Marxists in additio...

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They welcomed fascism and supported its violent suppression of opponents on the left. 0.950

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Simplified: They welcomed fascism and supported its violent suppression of opponents on the left.

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It has been applied to Marxist–Leninist regimes in Cuba under Fidel Castro and Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh. 0.950

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Simplified: The term has been applied to Marxist–Leninist regimes in Cuba under Fidel Castro and Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh

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The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was sometimes called fascist. 0.950

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Simplified: The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was sometimes called fascist

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Ancient Sparta has been considered an inspiration for fascist and quasi-fascist movements, such as Nazism and quasi-fascist Metaxism 0.950

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Simplified: Ancient Sparta has been considered an inspiration for fascist and quasi-fascist movements such as Nazism and quasi-fascist Metaxism

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Several historians such as Umberto Eco Kevin Passmore and Moyra Grant stress racism as a characteristic component of German fascism. 0.950

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Simplified: Historians Umberto Eco Kevin Passmore and Moyra Grant stress racism as a characteristic component of German fascism.

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Historian Robert Soucy stated Hitler envisioned the ideal German society as a Volksgemeinschaft a racially unified and hierarchically organized body in which the interests of individuals would be stri... 0.950

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Simplified: Historian Robert Soucy stated Hitler envisioned the ideal German society as a Volksgemeinschaft a racially unified and hierarchically organized body.

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In the United States, Herbert Matthews of The New York Times asked in 1946: "Should we now place Stalinist Russia in the same category as Hitlerite Germany? Should we say that she is Fascist?" 0.950

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Simplified: Herbert Matthews of The New York Times asked in 1946 Should we now place Stalinist Russia in the same category as Hitlerite Germany Should we say that...

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