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Article: The Surprising Roots of Fascism.(Review)
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- Policy Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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A. JAMES GREGOR. The Two Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 256 PAGES. $30.00
IANUS WAS THE ROMAN god after whom January is named. He was considered the guardian deity of gates and doors and is usually shown as two-faced, since doors face both ways. But there is only a single body to this deity. Berkeley Professor A. James Gregor, in his superbly researched book, has presumably selected Janus to symbolize the twinning of the two ideologies that have so scarred the twentieth century.
Gregor has undertaken a difficult task in his attempt to deal with these two ideologies. I say difficult because while the ...