# Zeev Sternhell
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**Role in this topic:** the strongest scholarly case for fascism as 'neither right nor left'
- 1935–2020. Israeli historian ◻.
- *Ni droite ni gauche. L'idéologie fasciste en France* (1983): fascism as a synthesis of organic nationalism and an anti-materialist revision of Marxism, with roots in France (Barrès, Sorel).
- A useful counterweight. He still sees fascism as a revolt against both liberalism and Marxism, so his work doesn't support "far left".