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A. James Gregor (1929–2019) — the Berkeley political scientist of "developmental fascism" — has not been a named reference in Infrared's transcribed streams, though his framework haunts every debate over whether national development states are "fascist."

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The repeated debates over whether China is "fascist" or communist — the developmental-dictatorship frame is exactly Gregor's lens applied to the PRC.
The Nazi-Germany economy discussions (Vampire economy): was Nazism anti-capitalist or capitalism-in-command-form? Gregor's answer (developmental, modernizing, anti-Marxist) vs. the Marxist answer (counter-revolution in emergency form).
The red-brown question generally (Nazi-Maoism, European New Right).

Until Haz addresses him directly, this page records the gap rather than inventing a position.

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-'''A. James Gregor''' (1929–2019) was an American political scientist at UC Berkeley, the leading academic theorist of '''"developmental fascism"''' — the thesis that fascism, in its Italian form and its imitators, functioned historically as a developmental dictatorship for late-modernizing nations.
+'''A. James Gregor''' (1929–2019) — the Berkeley political scientist of "developmental fascism" — has not been a named reference in Infrared's transcribed streams, though his framework haunts every debate over whether national development states are "fascist."
-== Work ==
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-* ''The Ideology of Fascism'' (1969), ''Italian Fascism and Developmental Dictatorship'' (1979), ''Mussolini's Intellectuals'', and studies of Chinese communism interpreted through the same developmental lens.
+* The repeated debates over whether China is "fascist" or communist — the developmental-dictatorship frame is exactly Gregor's lens applied to the PRC.
-* Argued fascism was not mere reaction but a revolutionary syncretic ideology: nationalism plus state-directed modernization for societies where liberal capitalism arrived too late and revolution from the left threatened the national state.
+* The Nazi-Germany economy discussions ([[Vampire economy]]): was Nazism anti-capitalist or capitalism-in-command-form? Gregor's answer (developmental, modernizing, anti-Marxist) vs. the Marxist answer (counter-revolution in emergency form).
-* His framework influenced both academic fascism studies and the New Right's self-understanding; he also consulted on security matters and wrote on Marxism-Leninism as a parallel developmental ideology.
+* The red-brown question generally ([[Nazi-Maoism]], [[European New Right]]).
-== Infrared relevance ==
+Until Haz addresses him directly, this page records the gap rather than inventing a position.
-Gregor is read in red-brown discourse as the scholar who '''normalized the comparison''' between fascist and communist developmental states — a comparison Infrared rejects in one direction (Soviet socialism was qualitatively different: abolition, not management, of capital) while acknowledging in the other: that nationalism is a real material force every successful revolution has mobilized. His work is essential reading for understanding how the European New Right borrows socialist categories (see [[European New Right]], [[Nazi-Maoism]], [[Strasserism]]).
 == See also ==
+* [[Vampire economy]]
 * [[Zoran Zoltanous]]
-* [[Arktos Media]]
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