The place of the concept of fascism in the Marxist theory of the State

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to develop the concept of fascist dictatorship. To this end, it characterizes the concept of fascism and inserts it into the set of Marxist theory of the State. The fascist dictatorship is conceived in the text as a bourgeois dictatorship of a particular type and formed out of a social movement, the fascist movement, whose class nature is petty-bourgeois and middle-class.
The contradiction between the class nature of the fascist movement and the class nature of the fascist dictatorship creates a particular and quite complex political dynamic. The article takes up, develops and rectifies analyzes by Gramsci, Togiatti, Guérin, Poulantzas and others.