This reader focuses on the definition of ideology of generic fascism, pulling together articles, essays and the political writings of key figures to lay bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not only to Nazism but to the many failed fascist movements that have surfaced in inter-war Europe and elsewhere. In his introduction and editorial commentary, Griffin locates the driving force behind all fascist movements in a distinctive utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society.