Left-wing fascism

Left-wing fascism (or  left fascism)Winners and Losers: Social and Political Polarities in America
By Irving Louis Horowitz
Published by Duke University Press, 1984
, 9780822306023
328 pages pp 219 et seq  is the contested 


  idea that left-wing politics can emulate and practice the ideology of fascism. Fascism is traditionally identified as a far-right ideology.Roger Griffin. Fascism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1995. pp. 8, 307. Left-wing fascism was first discussed in the 1960s as a critique of communist student movements. Today, the term is related to red fascism, that equates Stalinism and other variants of Marxism–Leninism with fascism.. The term has been discussed academically by sociologists such as Jürgen Habermas and Irving Louis Horowitz.

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