Jmabel in regards to predominant scholary consensus who is it that allegedly claims despite Third Way rhetoric fascism in power functioned rather consistently as a right wing force As far as I m aware owning numerous books on the subject that is not the scholary consensus at all The consensus developed by respected scholars of fascism who write in a manner which is not bias to any interest group such as Roger Griffin Hamish McDonald Roger Eatwell and Zeev Sternhell all recongise fascism as a Third Way as the references show The only dissenters I m aware of who seem to think fascism has absoutely no leftist connections and is merely a radical right system are street level socialists who want to put as much distance between the movements as possible This of course does not come from educated people in a position to write books For example even the foremost scholary expert on Fascism and a former member of both the Communist Party and then Socialist Party of Italy Renzo De Felice doesn t try to cover up its socialistic origins and third way status This is a man who has wrote a definitive seven volume piece on Mussolini