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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Political ideology that denies all rights to individuals in their relations with the state; specifically, the totalitarian nationalist movement founded in Italy in 1919 by Mussolini and followed by Hitler's Germany in 1933. Fascism came about essentially as a result of the economic and political crisis of the years after World War I. Units called fasci di combattimento (combat groups), from the Latin fasces , were originally established to oppose communism. The fascist party, the Partitio Nazionale Fascista , controlled Italy 1922–43. Fascism protected the existing social order by suppressing the working-class movement by force and by providing scapegoats for popular anger such as minority groups: Jews, foreigners, or blacks; it also prepared the citizenry for the economic and psychological mobilization of war. The term ‘fascism’ is also applied to similar organizations in other countries, such as the Spanish Falange and the British Union of Fascists under Oswald Mosley . Neo-fascist…
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Anti-fascist action, more popularly known as “antifa”, can be best described as international socialism on amphetamines. Driven by progressive ideology and “workers’ rights”, it has adopted violence and intimidation as a tactic to quash conservatives and nationalists – in Australia, Europe and, most…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
Sometimes used as a word of abuse to refer to movements or individuals who are intolerant or authoritarian, fascism is certainly intolerant and authoritarian, but it is more than this. It is a movement that seeks to establish a dictatorship of the “right” (that is an ultra-conservative position that…
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From The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology
Mussolini's corporatist political system, fascism, existed in Italy between 1922 and 1945. The term fascism is often applied, however, to cover somewhat similar political movements elsewhere, for example German Nazism and the Spanish Falange. Fascism was an authoritarian, nationalistic and illiberal…
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From Political Philosophy A-Z
Name given to a social and political movement of the early half of the twentieth century. Fascism is named after the fasci – or bundles of sticks which represented the idea of strength through unity, originating from Ancient Rome. Fascism drew on several disparate ideas: ideas of radical…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
Originally an Italian political movement, taking its name from the old Roman fasces , a bundle of rods with a projecting axe blade carried by a lictor as a symbol of a magistrate's power. It was founded in 1919 by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), who took advantage of the discontent in Italy after the…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
Political movement founded in Italy by Benito Mussolini (1919), characterized by nationalism , totalitarianism and anti-communism. The term also applied to the regimes of Adolf Hitler in Germany (1933), and Francisco Franco in Spain (1936). A reaction to the Russian Revolution (1917) and the spread…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(făsh'ĭzӘm), totalitarian philosophy of government that glorifies the state and nation and assigns to the state control over every aspect of national life. The name was first used by the party started by Benito Mussolini , who ruled Italy from 1922 until the Italian defeat in World War II. However, …
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From Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Fascism, a reactionary and revolutionary ideology that emerged across Europe after World War I (1914–1918), was partially developed in Italy and became fully developed in Germany as a reaction against the unrestrained liberal capitalism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which promoted…
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From The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics
Fascism, for most people, is the Nazis in Germany under Hitler (who himself was an Austrian), but in fact the roots of it are more complex. After all, ‘Nazism’ is shorthand for ‘National Socialism’ which is something quite different, and fascism is actually an Italian ideology, echoed in Spain and…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Political ideology that denies all rights to individuals in their relations with the state; specifically, the totalitarian nationalist movement founded in Italy in 1919 by Mussolini and followed by Hitler's Germany in 1933. Fascism came about essentially as a result of the economic and political…
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