Very few people understand fascism because it's a very context-specific and loosely-defined ideology. Unlike Marxists, fascists rarely wrote books. So if you r

Very few people understand fascism because it's a very context-specific and loosely-defined ideology. Unlike Marxists, fascists rarely wrote books. So if you read any book about fascism, the first chapter typically struggles with even defining what it actually is. The Wikipedia page on 'Definitions of fascism' is almost as long as the page on fascism itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism Today, it's used by both the left and the right to just mean "bad people", as far as I can tell.