Roger Griffin

It began in November of 1922, a few weeks after the March on Rome.

The Fourth World Congress interpreted fascism as a reactive counterrevolution called forth by the strike wave and the factory councils of the Bienno Rosso, and thereby fitted it, as Roger Griffin notes, without too much soul-searching into a scheme that predicted the imminent collapse of capitalism.

Two years later came the addition.

The Fifth World Congress declared social democracy and fascism to be two sides of the single instrument of capitalist dictatorship.

A few other historians have heavyweights.

And I did a fascism course with Roger Griffin at

uni.

A couple of them, in fact.

It's great to have you here your first time joining us from the United Kingdom.

You know, when I first had Roger Griffin, the scholar of fascism on my podcast, we started by having him provide a one sentence definition of fascism.

Is it possible to define ethnic cleansing in a sentence or two before we dive a little deeper?

Well, I suppose you could say that ethnic cleansing is the forced removal of populations.

I wrote to this man.

Professor Roger Griffin, look him up.

He is the country's expert on fascism.

And I emailed him.