Fascism
Definition of Fascism
The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Fascism: A political doctrine opposed to democracy and demanding submission to political leadership and authority. A key principle of fascism is the belief that the whole society has a shared destiny and purpose which can only be achieved by iron discipline, obedience to leadership and an all-powerful state. Fascism first developed in Italy, under the leadership of Benito Mussolini (dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943) and later influenced the development of German fascism in the Nazi movement led by Adolf Hitler (dictator of Germany from 1933-1945) . While fascism increases the power and role of the state in society and suppresses free trade unions and political opposition, it preserves private ownership and private property.
Fascism: Resources
Notes and References
- Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Fascism. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada
Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Fascism
(You may find fascism at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
1922, originally used in English in 1920 in its Italian form fascismo (see fascist). Applied to similar groups in Germany from 1923; applied to everyone since the internet. A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. [Robert O. Paxton, “The Anatomy of Fascism,” 2004]
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Translation of Fascism
- Spanish: Fascismo
- French: Fascisme
- German: Faschismus
- Italian: Fascismo
- Portuguese: Fascismo
- Polish: Faszyzm
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