1. Palmiro Togliatti, La via italiana al socialismo (Mexico, 1972). A judgement entirely coincident with Togliatti's has been recently expressed by another well-known anti-fascist leader Lelio Basso. He argued that the petty-bourgeois social base of fascism, its structural links with the national monopolistic bourgeoisie, its impressive party organization and its nationalism clearly differentiate it from the Latin American dictatorships He also added that European fascism was the result of the political defeat of the revolutionary offensive of the working classes, a situation that, once more, is not strictly comparable to that prevailing in Latin America See his insightful comments in Chile-America (Rome, July-August 1977, No 33-4).