Description: Pierre Drieu la Rochelle (1983-1945) - French writer and publicist. Participated in the First World War. After the war he joined the surrealist movement. He became interested in socialist ideas and then fascism. During the Second World War he had close contacts with the German occupation administration. Committed suicide after the landing of Allied troops in France. ("... He said that Drieu la Rochelle shot himself in Paris. Apparently, there is a law according to which those who, with good intentions, tried to maintain friendship between peoples must die, while scoundrels and hustlers got off cheaply" - Ernst Junger. Radiations.)

The book presented here is a collection of articles united by the author himself under one cover.

Abstract: The work “Fascist Socialism” (1934) is a clear indication of the insight of the right wing of French political thought of the pre-war era. Tracing contemporary political trends and transformations in Russia, Germany and France, Drieu reveals the deep kinship of Marxist and fascist doctrines, initially veiled by the superficial difference in theoretical justifications. Fascist socialism (or, if you prefer, socialist fascism), this political centaur, with all its duality, finds a worthy embodiment in the position of an intellectual described by Drieu at the end of the book (using his own example), which surprisingly anticipates the search for a solution to the crisis of democracy that came after the post-war period. euphoria.