`::::Jmabel; in regards to predominant scholary consensus who is it that allegedly claims ``despite ``Third Way`` rhetoric, fascism in power functioned rather consistently as a right-wing force``? As far as I'm aware (owning numerous books on the subject) that is not the scholary consensus at all. The consensus, developed by respected scholars of fascism who write in a manner which is not bias to any interest group such as Roger Griffin, Hamish McDonald, Roger Eatwell and Zeev Sternhell all recongise fascism as a ``Third Way`` as the references show.  ::::The only dissenters I'm aware of who seem to think fascism has absoutely no leftist connections and is merely a radical right system are street level socialists who want to put as much distance between the movements as possible. This of course does not come from educated people in a position to write books. For example, even the foremost scholary expert on Fascism, and a former member of both the Communist Party and then Socialist Party of Italy, Renzo De Felice doesn't try to ``cover up`` its socialistic origins and third way status. This is a man who has wrote a definitive seven volume piece on Mussolini. -     `