"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but
effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints
goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." (Anatomy of Fascism, p 218
