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. My position conflicts with mainstream political science because it defines fascism as a logic of hierarchical domination that can exist at the level of individuals, social relations, or private authority, regardless of state size...