So just what exactly is Fascism? What makes a Fascist a Fascist? Or is it easier to say what Fascism is not?
>>784451
>fascism is named after fasces, a bundle of sticks tied around an ax to symbolize collective strength
>a bundle of sticks is a faggot
>fascism is literally faggotism
>>784458
I giggled.
>>784451
>What makes a Fascist a Fascist?
love of the trinity: God, Country and Party
>>784451
Instead of electing people to represent you based on location, you vote for someone from your profession who will represent your work force to a supreme leader.
Mussolini (and Giovanni Gentile)'s definition:
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm
>>784451
It's a totalitarian ideology which is characterized by aggressive militarism and corporate state system.
>>784451
Fascism is the idea that a country should be run by a small group of well educated intellectuals with the countries best interests at heart.
There are many tenants to fascism, but those do not necessarily have to be followed. There is often a fascism thread on pol.
Many people conflate heavy state interference and police brutality and individuals being suppressed, however these are more negative stereotypes due to the 2 main fascist states people use as an example were Italy and Germany before and during WW2
>>784451
capitalism in decay
>>784498
Capitalism - economic system
Fascism - political system
The two are unrelated.
>>784498
fascism has no real concrete definition because fascists don't tend to be too big on books or thinking
>>784451
Its basically school yard bull tier politics.
Is it fair to say that a cult of personality is characteristic for fascistic states?
>>784572
This. It's easier to talk about authoritarianism because at least that one is clearcut. Somewhat.
>>784504
>idealism
>>784626
>conspiracy theories
>>>/pol/
>>784595
Fascism only ever came about in Italy. If you mean "was a cult of personality a characteristic of Spain, Italy, Germany, and Portugal during the early 20th century" then yes. But cults of personality are by no means restricted to these states. Stalin, Mao, and the Kim family purported that they were capable of supernatural abilities (Lysenkoism involved praying to Stalin; Mao had his holy Mangoes; ever member of the Kim family does not poop, etc).
It's important not to confuse fictional depictions of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy with how they actually were. The cult of personality surrounding Hitler (and Mussolini) was not nearly as in your face or as psychotic as it's typically depicted in the media. But given the general narrative of "A great man coming to save the nation", how could a cult of personality NOT develop? Especially given that the Leader has nigh absolute power (If not literally, then in practice).
>>784494
>tenants
>>784691
There are some exceptions, Greek Colonel regime comes to mind - Papadopoulos was so uncharismatic and unpopular as a person junta was often called "dictatorship without a dictator". But then again, this is Greece we're talking about
>>784451
There are literally two fasces at Abraham Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. Sure is Fascist.
>>784458
>fascism is named after fasces, a bundle of sticks tied around an ax to symbolize collective strength
Please nigga, Fasces were used as a tool of order by ancient "policemen" in order to whip the crowd to shape. It's a symbol of law and order not some collective strength shit.
Isn't fascism where the government owns the citizens?
What were the common policies and ideas of the various fascist regimes of Europe? What did they have in common?
>>784797
Nationalism.
>>784795
That's any totalitarian state.
>>784795
That's Communism.
>>784478
Many fascists don't believe in a 'God' let alone the Christain one.
Fascism was an ideology in name only, the key tenet of fascism was a rejection of internationalism, if was an ideology to be developed independently; in the nation, for the nation, by the nation. However there are a few other tenets adopted by most
-A rejection of both liberalism and conservatism; rather than sticking to either which Fascists saw as irrational instead looking to the future alone; supporting personal liberty and freedom in life as long as it coincided with the goals of the nation with those coming first before anything else
-Nationalism: Present and key in all the majority movements taking pride in the past and looking to it for inspiration though in many cases the degree varied; the Italian National Fascist Party were Cultural Nationalists, race was not in the equation and minorities suffered no ill treatment other than the universal discrimination of the time, a minority could remain in the country if a naturalised citizen and deemed to be contributing. While German National Socialism and similar movements like the minor British Imperial Fascist League advocated the notion of racial purity and a master race pushing for the removal of all minority elements by force if necessary
-In the economy again Fascism was divided into two camps the Italian model of state nationalisation of large industries, and the German model of high state regulation but lesser, with the banks in fact actually being privatised once more while the Italians advocated a form of Corporatism with some industries nationalised, but everything organised under a corporate system
Facism is both an ideology impossible to define, and one which is dead, it was a movement from the war generation to create government of action as opposed to the old governments of the old generation which still remained after the war, failing to create a 'land fit for heroes' as promised, but in the end governments of action were born after the war in the west, with increased state intervention...
>>784854
...as a result of the second world war, making fascism a largely moot ideology, leaving only goals that were born on national levels (German and Italian irredentism) rather than the principle of the overarching ideology.
While fascism varied wildly poltically by nation, in Italy it was a movement of the centre neither committing to the left or right taking both its socialist inheritance and the views of others from the right who became involved with the movement, National Socialism as created in Germany was more a movement of the right, with nationalisation existing only in public works programmes undertaken to try and repair the economy, and to assist in military buildup, with most industries remaining privatised though with the state being more influential than ever before. While the proposed British model is probably the closest to the left, arguing that the workers of any organisation reaching a certain size should be given a 50% stake in it to balance the demands of the workers and the owners, while small private enterprise was to be protected too, in general this is rather accurate:
British fascism was more radical authoritarian Keynesianism than anything else, their leader a former Socialist government minister was an early supporter of Keynes - who actually corresponded with their leader before the birth of the fascist movement - who resigned from government over their failure to take action, the British Union of Fascists still argued for a democratic state, but a corporate one, representatives are elected based on profession rather than geography, to end the old party system and to create a 'government of action', though the earlier fascist movements in; the British Fascists, the National Fascisti, and the Imperial Fascist league all functioned along lines closer to the famous Italian and German models of fascism
