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Comment: “Fascism is the destruction of liberal ideas and institutions in the intere$t of those who own the instruments of economic power.” (Laski)

  • UPSC 2008
  • Political Ideologies

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Harold J. Laski, who moved in the 1930s from pluralism to a Marxian reading of the state, treated fascism as capitalism's emergency answer to the threat that democracy posed to property. The statement is a functional definition: fascism is identified by whom it serves, not by what it believes. It is strong on effects, weaker…

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