at one tiem fascism was interpreted almost entirely in terms of its relationship to class. For marxism, fascism was a dictatorship of the most reactionary elements of campitalism, or the expression of an alliance of dominant capitalists with a subordiante petty bourgeoisie. For weberians, fascism represented a last-ditch bid dy the traditional elites to defend themselves against modernization. We might at this stage add a movement which essentially expresses the petty bourgeoisie's equal hostility to big capital and organized labour