The Authoritarian-Libertarian Fascist Spectrum: A Comprehensive Critical Analysis
This spectrum emerged from synthesizing historical materialist analysis with contemporary observations of fascism's organizational adaptability. The theoretical foundations draw from classical Marxist critiques of fascism as capitalism's crisis response (Dimitrov, Trotsky), anarchist analyses of distributed authoritarianism (Bookchin's warnings about lifestyle anarchism's vulnerabilities), and contemporary scholarship on fascism's protean nature (Paxton, Griffin, Eco). The division between authoritarian and libertarian quadrants specifically responds to observing how post-2008 far-right movements organized both through state capture and through networked, leaderless resistance models that appropriated left organizational forms. The horizontal axis runs from "Right/Of Center" to "Far Right" because fascism fundamentally serves capital and hierarchy, making it incompatible with genuine left liberation politics that seek to abolish clas...