"}The term national socialism seems to have been invented by the French nationalist author Maurice Barr\u00e8s, who described the aristocratic adventurer the Marquis de Mor\u00e8s in 1896 as the \u201cfirst national socialist.\u201d Mor\u00e8s, after failing as a cattle rancher in North Dakota, returned to Paris in the early 1890s and organised a band of antisemitic roughs who attacked Jewish shops and offices. As a cattleman, Mor\u00e8s found his recruits among slaughterhouse workers in Paris, to whom he appealed with a mixture of anti capitalism and antisemitic nationalism. His squads wore the cowboy garb and ten-gallon hats that the marquis had discovered in the American West, which thus predate black and brown shirts (by a modest stretch of the imagination) as the first fascist uniform.
this feels almost too on the nose to be a historical fact
What’s the source for this op?
sorry I didn\u2019t mean for this to get passed around, it\u2019s from Chapter 2 of Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton