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Fascism, pronounced /'fæ??z?m/, is a political ideology that seeks to combine radical and authoritarian nationalism[1][2][3][4] with a corporatist economic system,[5] and which is usually considered to be on the far right of the traditional left-right political spectrum.[6][7][8][9][10]
Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state,[11] with the belief that the majority is unsuited to govern itself through democracy and by reaffirming the benefits of inequality.[12] Fascist governments forbid and suppress openness and opposition to the fascist state and the fascist movement.[13] Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalism and liberal democracies for its creation and communists for exploiting the concept.[14] Fascism fashioned itself as the "complete opposite of Marxian socialism"[12] by rejecting the economic and material conception of history, the fundamental belief of fascism being that human beings are motivated by glory and heroism rather than economic motives, in contrast to the worldview of capitalism and socialism.[12]
In the economic sphere, many fascist leaders have claimed to support a "Third Way" in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state socialism.[15][16] This was to be achieved by establishing significant government control over business and labour (Italian fascist leader Mussolini called his nation's system "the corporate state").[17][18] No common and concise definition exists for fascism and historians and political scientists disagree on what should be in any such definition.[19]
Following the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II and the publicity surrounding the atrocities committed during the period of fascist governments, the term fascist has been used as a pejorative word,[20] often referring to widely varying movements across the political spectrum.[21]
Contents [hide]
1 Etymology
2 Definitions
2.1 Position in the political spectrum
2.2 Fascist as epithet
3 Historical causes of the rise of fascism
4 Core tenets
4.1 Nationalism
4.1.1 Foreign policy
4.2 Authoritarianism
4.3 Social Darwinism
4.4 Social interventionism
4.4.1 Indoctrination
4.4.2 Abortion, eugenics and euthanasia
4.4.3 Culture and gender roles
4.5 Economic policies
4.5.1 National corporatism, national socialism and national syndicalism
4.5.2 Economic planning
4.5.3 Social welfare
5 Racism and racialism
6 Relation to religion
7 Variations and subforms
7.1 Italian Fascism
7.2 Nazism (National Socialism, Germany)
7.3 Iron Guard (Romania)
7.4 Falangism (Spain)
7.5 Integralism (Brazil)
8 Para-fascism
8.1 Austrian Fatherland Front
8.2 Imperial Rule Assistance Association (Japan)
9 References
9.1 Notes
9.2 Primary sources
9.3 Secondary sources
10 External links
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