# Robert Paxton Up: [[Fascism, Nazism and the Left-Right Spectrum]] · [[Post Analysis - brivael on the Far Right Label (2026-10-24)|post analysis]] **Role in this topic:** historian whose definition anchors the mainstream view - Born 1932. American historian of Vichy France (*Vichy France*, 1972) ◻ and author of *The Anatomy of Fascism* (2004). - Defines fascism as a nationalist mass movement in "uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites". The alliance with conservatives is central to placing it on the right.