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In the book, Goldberg
argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, fascist movements
were and are left-wing. He states that both modern liberalism and
fascism descended from progressivism, and that prior to World War
II, "fascism was widely viewed as a progressive social
movement with many liberal and left-wing adherents in Europe and
the United States". Goldberg argues that over time, the term fascism
has lost its actual meaning and instead has descended to the level
of being "a modern word for 'heretic,' branding an individual
worthy of excommunication from the body politic" and that
this devolution of the meaning is not new, noting that George
Orwell had observed this in 1946 when he described the word as no
longer having any meaning except to signify "something not
desirable". Goldberg writes that there was more to fascism
than bigotry and genocide and, in fact, that bigotry and genocide
were not so much a feature of fascism itself, but rather a feature
of Nazism, which was forced upon the Italian fascists "after
the Nazis had invaded northern Italy and created a puppet
government in Salò."
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