fascism

socialism

welfare state

is a doctrine whereby the state is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

is a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline or community humiliation and by a compensatory cult of unity, energy and purity, in which democratic liberties are abandoned for goals of internal cleansing and external expansion in the name of a redemptive violence without ethical or legal restraints.

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.

is a movement of the radical right involving a set of ultranationalist ideologies and practices which seek to place the nation above all other sources of loyalty (i.e. Class, gender) and to create a mobilized, militarized national community with a charismatic leader at the helm.

Fascism is a set of ideologies and practices that seeks to place the nation, defined in exclusive biological, cultural, and/or historical terms, above all other sources of loyalty, and to create a mobilized national community. Fascist nationalism is reactionary in that it entails implacable hostility to socialism and feminism, for they are seen as prioritizing class or gender rather than nation. This is why fascism is a movement of the extreme right. Fascism is also a movement of the radical right because the defeat of socialism and feminism and the creation of the mobilized nation are held to depend upon the advent to power of a new elite acting in the name of the people, headed by a charismatic leader, and embodied in a mass, militarized party. Fascist are pushed towards conservatism by common hatred of socialism and feminism, but are prepared to override conservative interests family, property, religion, the universities, the civil service where the interests of the nation are considered to require it. Fascist radicalism also derives from a desire to assuage discontent by accepting specific demands of the labour and women's movements, so long as these demands accord with the national priority. Fascist seek to ensure the harmonization of workers' and women's interests with those of the nation by mobilizing them within special sections of the party and/or within a corporate system. Access to these organizations and to the benefits they confer upon members depends on the individual's national, political, and/or racial characteristics. All aspects of fascist policy are suffused with ultranationalism.

is a particular form of the larger phenomenon of the passive revolution: A modernization that preserved residuals of parasitism, of corporativism, and a caste's privileges.

For Gramsci fascism was thus a particular form of the larger phenomenon of the passive revolution: a modernization that preserved residuals of parasitism, of corporativism, and a caste's privileges'

is a planned system geared to world-conquest which allows no private interest, either of capitalist or worker, to stand in its way.

Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes. . . It is a planned system geared to a definite purpose, world-conquest, and not allowing any private interest, either of capitalist or worker, to stand in its way.

is a political system involving political economy, charismatic leadership, perceived crisis, the degeneration of state authority, and nationalism (but can also appear as pan-european white supremacist).

a 'spectralsyncretic' approach based on four ideological themes: (i) the emphasis onnatural history and social Darwinism, indicating a pessimistic acceptance ofthe human need to dominate and the capacity of rulers to resist the degenerationof state authority in the interests of maximizing the potential of thenation... (ii) the influence of geopolitics and the defence of European culture,suggesting that while fascism is nationalist in orientation, some forms ofnational socialism are pan-European and white supremacist... (iii) the importanceof political economy in Italy and Germany, in which anti-capitalist,rural-ecologist and third-way tendencies were overshadowed by support forbusiness... and (iv) the importance of charismatic leadership a political valuein itself, albeit one linked to the exceptional conditions and the manipulationof crisis by fascist leaders for instrumental ends (Eatwell 1992).

is a political system that stresses style, action, and the charismatic leader more than detailed programs, and engages in the manichaean demonization of its enemies. It is highly opportunistic so difficult to pin down.

From this perspective, he offers an alternative definition of fascism as 'an ideology that strives to forge rebirth based on a holistic-national Third Way, though in practice fascism has tended to stress style, especially action and the charismatic leader, more than detailed programme, and to engage in a Manichean demonization of its enemies' (Eatwell 1996: 313... cf. Eatwell 2007b).

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