BD – ‘Where I teach there is an expectation that all sources are authoritatively referenced.’
Who has the ‘authority’ to define Fascism? Perhaps Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini? Any glance at what they wrote will tell you that their ‘ideology’ was far from coherent. In terms of those who followed them, which is far more important, it is unlikely that their values and principles were ‘defined’ in any logical sense. Fascism was based on faith without the need to recourse to rational thought – that is why it became so strong.