Fascist Ideology

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A Fascist Ideology is an authoritarian right-wing nationalist populist ideology that requires a charismatic Fascist leader (who drums up patriotism, scapegoating and promotes conservative values.



References

2023

  1. Turner (1975), p. 162: "... goals of radical and authoritarian nationalism."; Larsen, Hagtvet & Myklebust (1984), p. 424: "... organized form of integrative radical nationalist authoritarianism."; Paxton (2004), pp. 32, 45, 173: (32) "...antiliberal values, more aggressive nationalism and racism, and a new aesthetic of instinct and violence", (173) "...overtly violent racism and nationalism. [...] its defining elements—unlimited particular sovereignty, a relish for war, and a society based on violent exclusion"; Nolte (1965), p. 300: "National fascism, as we have shown, is distinguished from nationalism by, among other things, the fact it demands the destruction of a neighbouring state whose very existence appears to threaten its own position of power and the historic remains of its past dominant status in the area."
  2. 2.0 2.1 Encyclopedia Britannica Fascism: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: "people's community"), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation"
  3. 3.0 3.1 "fascism". Merriam-Webster Online. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Davies, Peter; Lynch, Derek, eds. (2002). The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right. ISBN 978-1-134-60952-9 – via Google Books.
  5. "Fascism". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Retrieved 7 August 2022.

2018

  • (The Guardian, 2018) ⇒ "Madeleine Albright: ‘The things that are happening are genuinely, seriously bad’."
    • QUOTE: ... I suggest to her that the book struggles to offer a satisfactory definition of fascism. “Defining fascism is difficult,” she responds. “First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.”

      It is in his methods that Trump can be compared with, if not precisely likened to, the dictators of the 1930s. Fascists are typically masters of political theatre. They feed on and inflame grievances by setting “the people” against their “enemies”. Fascists tell their supporters that there are simple fixes for complex problems. They present as national saviours and conflate themselves with the state. They seek to subvert, discredit and eliminate liberal institutions. She reminds us that they have often ascended to power through the ballot box and then undermined democracy from within. She is especially fond of a Mussolini quote about “plucking a chicken feather by feather” so that people will not notice the loss of their freedoms until it is too late.