Impressions of Soviet Russia

"Even in Bavaria, as I was able to ascertain in the course of a visit to Munich in 1922, the Escherich and the Hitler organisations were not, as the French Press would make us believe, militarist and nationalist organisations; they were in the first instance established as a protection of the Bavarian middle class and peasantry against the Bolshevist peril. They were essentially “fascist” movements. Fascism, the potent weapon which the ex-Socialist leader Mussolini wielded against the Italian Communists, is not only an Italian phenomenon; Fascism has become an ubiquitous Central European phenomenon. It is the instinctive, inevitable and salutary reaction of the body politic against the disintegrating forces of revolutionary Socialism." -p.129