What are best books for learning about fascism?

what are best books for learning about fascism?

1984

Fascism : Career of a Concept - Paul Gottfried
He gives an overview of how the word has changed throughout time and the differing theories that have been used to explain its rise.
Introduction
Chapter One Defining Fascism
Chapter Two Totalitarianism and Fascism
Chapter Three Fascism as the Unconquered Past
Chapter Four Fascism as a Movement of the Left
Chapter Five The Failure of Fascist Internationalism
Chapter Six The Search for a Fascist Utopia Chapter Seven A Vanished Revolutionary Right APPENDIX: Fascism and Modernization

I really liked chapter three deals with part of the usage of fascism as an insult and a psychic condition. It includes a discussion on the influence of the Frankfurt School on this.

An excerpt :
Several of the members worked intermittently during the war for the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. In this advisory capacity they investigated the psychic origins of fascism and proposed far-reaching plans for curing the Germans of their aggressive political culture. This exploration of the social and psychological preconditionsfor a fascist society culminated in the publication of The Authoritarian Society (1950), a compilation of essays that fit into a series of commentaries titled Studies in Prejudice, which was financed and published by the American Jewish Committee. Horkheimer became a coeditor for the entire series, which dealt with the psychic and social causes of anti-Semitism. He later assigned the organization of the most famous anthology in the series, TAP, to his alter ego, Adorno.

Great Italian authors and historicians that your fucking country have never translated.

Evola: Facism viewed from the right :^)

name them

My wife's son's diary desu

- Emilio Gentile (considered the biggest historician about fascism worldwide)
- Renzo De Felice
- Giovanni Sabbatucci
- Augusto Del Noce
- Roberto Vivarelli
- Gaetano Salvemini

Two "bonuses" are:
- Antonio Gramsci
- Piero Gobetti
They died during the fascist period but wrote wrote great reflections about it. They also had a nice style of writing.

Some novelists are:
- Primo Levi
- Carlo Levi
- Giorgio Bassani
- Cesare Pavese
- Beppe Fenoglio

>No Julius Evola