Fascism

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 117. Chapters: Totalitarianism, Nazism, Francoist Spain, Italian Fascism, Roman salute, Fascism and ideology, List of Fascist movements, Christian Reconstructionism, Giovanni Gentile, Definitions of fascism, Islamofascism, Ideological origins of Fascism, 6 February 1934 crisis, Mussolini's Mare Nostrum, March of the Iron Will, Militarism, Arditi, Fascism In Its Epoch, Synarchism, Fascist symbolism, Christofascism, Ecofascism, Fascism in North America, Italianization of South Tyrol, Fascism in South America, Clerical fascism, Actual idealism, New Zealand National Front, Social fascism, 1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Ossewabrandwag, Heroic realism, Fascism in Africa, Revisionist Maximalism, Futuwwa, Integralism, Albanian Lictor Youth, Class collaboration, Red Shirts, Arab Lictor Youth, Creeping fascism, Fascist paramilitary, Silver Legion of America, Gold shirts, Palingenetic ultranationalism, Arrow Cross, Totalitarian twins, Ethiopian Lictor Youth, Aestheticization of politics, Crypto-fascism, Gerarchia, Russian Fascism, Feudal fascism, Pathological fascism. Excerpt: Fascism ( ) is a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists advocate the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy including eugenics. Fascists seek to purge forces and ideas deemed to be the cause of decadence and degeneration and produce their nation's rebirth based on commitment to the national community based on organic unity where individuals are bound together by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and "blood". Fascists believe that a nation requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong. Fascist governments forbid and suppress opposition to the state. Fascists promote violence and war as actions that create national regeneration, spirit and vitality. Fascists exalt militarism as providing positive transformation in society, in providing spiritual renovation, education, instilling of a will to dominate in people's character, and creating national comradeship through military service. Fascism was founded by Italian national syndicalists in World War I who combined left-wing and right-wing political views, but it gravitated to the right in the early 1920s. The majority of scholars generally consider fascism to be on the far right, while others claim it is the extreme form of a centrist ideology. Fascism is anti-communist, anti-democratic, anti-individualist, anti-liberal, anti-parliamentary, anti-bourgeois, anti-proletarian and anti-conservative. It entails a distinctive type of anti-capitalism and is typically, with a few exceptions, anticlerical. Fascism rejects the concepts of egalitarianism, materialism, and rationalism in favour of action, discipline, hierarchy, spirit, and will. In economics, fascists oppose liberalism (as a bourgeois movement) and Marxism (as a proletarian movement) for being exclusive economic c