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[[File:Mussolini and Hitler 1940 (retouched) (cropped b).jpg|thumb|upright=1.05|[[Benito Mussolini]], dictator of [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] (left), and [[Adolf Hitler]], dictator of [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] (right), were fascist leaders.]]
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'''Fascism''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|æ|ʃ|ɪ|z|əm}} {{respell|FASH|iz|əm}}) is a <!-- DO NOT REMOVE THIS TERM, SEE TALK PAGE -->[[far-right]]<!-- DO NOT REMOVE THIS TERM, SEE TALK PAGE -->, [[authoritarian]], and [[ultranationalist]] political ideology and movement that rose to prominence in early-20th-century Europe.<ref name="RoutledgeCompanion">{{harvp|Davies|Lynch|2002|pp=[https://archive.org/details/routledgecompani00davi/page/1 1–5]}}</ref><ref>{{harvp|Badie|Berg-Schlosser|Morlino|2011|loc=Fascism|pp=887–888}}<br />{{harvp|Payne|1975|p=162|ps=: "[...] goals of radical and authoritarian nationalism"}}<br />{{harvp|Larsen|Hagtvet|Myklebust|1984|p=424|ps=: "[...] organized form of integrative radical nationalist authoritarianism"}}<br />{{harvp|Paxton|2004|pp=32, 45, 173|ps=: (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"}}<br />{{harvp|Nolte|1965|p=300|ps=: "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."}}<br />{{harvp|Merriam-Webster ''Fascism''}}</ref><ref name="Britannica">{{harvp|Encyclopedia Britannica ''Fascism''|ps=: "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 {{lang|de|Volksgemeinschaft}} (German: "people's community"), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation"}}</ref> Fascism is characterized by support for a [[dictator]]ial leader, centralized [[autocracy]], [[militarism]], forcible suppression of [[Opposition (politics)|opposition]], belief in a natural [[social hierarchy]], subordination of [[individual]] interests for the perceived interest of the [[nation]] or [[Race (human categorization)|race]], and strong regimentation of society and the economy.<ref name="Britannica"/>{{sfnp|Merriam-Webster ''Fascism''}} Opposed to [[communism]], [[democracy]], [[liberalism]], [[Pluralism (political philosophy)|pluralism]], and [[socialism]],<ref>{{harvp|Larsen|Hagtvet|Myklebust|1984|pp=22–23, 30, 35}}; {{harvp|Payne|1992|p=168}}; {{harvp|Davies|Lynch|2002|pp=96, 103, 129–130}}; {{harvp|Kallis|2003b|pp=20–21, 234}}; {{harvp|Paxton|2004|p=}};{{pn|date=May 2025}} {{harvp|Blamires|2006|pp=5, 8, 16–17, 21}}; {{harvp|Copsey|2008|pp=12, 79}}; {{harvp|Badie|Berg-Schlosser|Morlino|2011|loc=Fascism|p=889}}; {{harvp|Eley|2013|pp=3–9}}; {{harvp|Richardson|2017|p=21–32}}; {{harvp|Copsey|2023|pp=271–272}}</ref>{{sfnp|Holocaust Encyclopedia ''Fascism''}} fascism is at the far-right of the traditional [[left–right spectrum]].<ref name="RoutledgeCompanion"/>{{sfnp|Holocaust Encyclopedia ''Fascism''}}<ref name="University-Aristotle-Hartley-Reich-Payne">{{harvp|Griffin|1995|pp=8, 307}}; {{harvp|Kallis|2003b|p=71}}; {{harvp|Hartley|2004|p=187}}; {{harvp|Reich|1970|pp=76–77}}; {{harvp|Payne|1992|pp=167–175}}; {{harvp|Copsey|2008|p=}};{{pn|date=May 2025}} {{harvp|Goodwin|2011|pp=1–9}}; {{harvp|Woodley|2010|pp=9–10}}; {{harvp|Blamires|2006|pp=xxi–xxii}}; {{harvp|Richardson|2017|pp=18–19, 21–22}}; {{harvp|Eley|2013|p=75}}; {{harvp|Davies|Lynch|2002|pp=5–6}}; {{harvp|Wistrich|1976|p=}};{{pn|date=May 2025}} {{harvp|Staudenmaier|2004|p=517}}</ref>

The first fascist movements emerged [[Italian fascism|in Italy]] during [[World War I]] before spreading to [[Fascism in Europe|other European countries]], most notably [[Nazi Germany|Germany]].<ref name="RoutledgeCompanion"/> Fascism also had adherents outside of Europe.{{sfnp|Encyclopedia Britannica ''Fascism''}} Fascists saw World War I as a [[revolution]] that brought massive changes to the nature of war, society, the state, and technology. The advent of [[total war]] and the [[mass mobilization]] of society erased the distinction between civilians and combatants. A military citizenship arose, in which all citizens were involved with the military in some manner.{{sfnmp|Griffin|2006|1pp=140–141|Gentile|2006b|2p=670|Mann|2004|3p=65}} The war resulted in the rise of a powerful state capable of mobilizing millions of people to serve on the front lines, providing logistics to support them, and having unprecedented authority to intervene in the lives of citizens.{{sfnmp|Griffin|2006|1pp=140–141|Gentile|2006b|2p=670|Mann|2004|3p=65}}

Fascism views forms of violence—including [[political violence]], [[imperialist]] violence, and [[war]]—as means to national rejuvenation.{{sfnmp|Grčić|2000|1p=120|2a1=Griffin|2a2=Feldman|2y=2004c|2p=185 |Spielvogel|2012|3p=935|Payne|1995|4p=106}}{{sfnp|Rietbergen|2000|pp=160–161}} Fascists often advocate for the establishment of a [[totalitarian]] [[one-party state]],{{sfnp|Griffin|2013|pp=1–6}}{{sfnp|Mussolini|2002|p=40}} and for a [[dirigiste]] economy, which is a [[market economy]] in which the state plays a strong directive role through [[market intervention]] with the principal goal of achieving national economic self-sufficiency, or "[[autarky]]."<ref>{{harvp|Davies|Lynch|2002|p=275|ps=: "Detailed and intrusive state direction of the economy and/or society. Dirigisme was central to both fascism and Communist systems. However, in the case of fascism, there was no requirement for outright state ownership of the means of production, as long as the economy could be harnessed to serve what fascists deemed to be the 'national interest'."}}</ref>{{sfnp|Berend|2016|p=93}} Fascism emphasizes both [[palingenesis]]—national rebirth or regeneration—and [[modernity]] when it is deemed compatible with national rebirth.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=168-169}} In promoting the nation's regeneration, fascists seek to purge it of decadence.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=168-169}} Fascism may also centre around an [[In-group and out-group|ingroup-outgroup]] opposition and [[demonization]] of "[[Other (philosophy)|Others]]" such as various [[ethnicity|ethnicities]], [[immigration|immigrants]], nations, races, political opponents of fascist parties, religious groups, and [[sexual and gender minorities]]. In the case of [[Nazism]], this involved [[racial purity]] and a belief in a [[master race]]. Such demonization has motivated fascist regimes to commit [[massacre]]s, [[forced sterilizations]], [[deportation]]s, and [[genocide]]s.{{sfnmp|1a1=Kallis|1y=2011|1p=|2a1=Paxton|2y=1998|2p=|3a1=Lancaster|3y=2011|3pp=366–368}}{{sfnp|Marhoefer|The Conversation|2023}} During [[World War II]], the genocidal and imperialist ambitions of the fascist regimes of the [[Axis powers]] resulted in the murder of millions of people.

Since the end of World War II in 1945, fascism has been largely disgraced, and few parties have openly described themselves as ''fascist''; the term is often [[Fascist (insult)|used pejoratively]] by political opponents. The descriptions ''[[neo-fascist]]'' or ''[[post-fascist]]'' are sometimes applied to contemporary parties with ideologies similar to, or rooted in, 20th-century fascist movements.<ref name="RoutledgeCompanion"/>{{sfnp|Enciclopedia Italiana ''Neofascismo''}}

==Etymology==
[[File:Fasces FR2.svg|thumb|200x200px|The [[fasces]], a symbol of [[Ancient Rome]], was employed in the modern era by various political movements to denote strength through unity.{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|pp=4–5}}]]
The Italian term {{lang|it|fascismo}} is derived from {{lang|it|fascio}}, meaning 'bundle of sticks', ultimately from the [[Latin language|Latin]] word {{lang|la|[[fasces]]}}.{{sfnp|Merriam-Webster ''Fascism''}} This was the name given to political organizations in Italy known as [[fasci]], groups similar to [[guild]]s or [[syndicate]]s. According to Italian fascist dictator [[Benito Mussolini]]'s own account, the [[Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria|Fasces of Revolutionary Action]] were founded in Italy in 1915.{{sfnp|Mussolini|2006|p=227}} In 1919, Mussolini founded the [[Fasci Italiani di Combattimento|Italian Fasces of Combat]] in Milan, which became the [[National Fascist Party]] two years later. The fascists came to associate the term with the ancient Roman fasces or {{lang|it|[[fascio littorio]]}},{{sfnp|Falasca-Zamponi|2000|p=95}} a bundle of rods tied around an axe,<ref>{{cite web |last=Johnston |first=Peter |date=12 April 2013 |title=The Rule of Law: Symbols of Power |url=http://www.okwu.edu/keating-center/2013/04/the-rule-of-law-symbols-of-power/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330232643/http://www.okwu.edu/keating-center/2013/04/the-rule-of-law-symbols-of-power/ |archive-date=30 March 2017 |access-date=28 April 2013 |publisher=The Keating Center, [[Oklahoma Wesleyan University]] |language=en-US}}</ref> an [[ancient Roman]] symbol of the authority of the civic [[Roman Magistrates|magistrate]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://antigonejournal.com/2023/07/roman-fasces/ |title=The Fasces: Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol |first=T. Corey |last=Brennan |work=Antigone Journal |date=16 July 2023 |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref> carried by his [[lictor]]s.<ref>{{harvp|Encyclopedia Britannica ''Fasces''}}: "When carried inside Rome, the ax was removed (unless the magistrate was a dictator or general celebrating a triumph) as recognition of the right of a Roman citizen to appeal a magistrate's ruling."</ref> The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: a single rod is easily broken, while the bundle is difficult to break.{{sfnp|Brennan|2022|pp=2, 12}}

Prior to 1914, the fasces symbol was widely employed by various political movements, often of a left-wing or liberal persuasion. For instance, according to Robert Paxton, "[[Marianne]], symbol of the French Republic, was often portrayed in the nineteenth century carrying the fasces to represent the force of Republican solidarity against her aristocratic and clerical enemies."{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|pp=4–5}} The symbol often appeared as an architectural motif, for instance on the [[Sheldonian Theatre|Sheldonian Theater]] at Oxford University and on the [[Lincoln Memorial]] in Washington, D.C.{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|pp=4–5}}

==Definitions==
{{Main|Definitions of fascism}}
Historian [[Ian Kershaw]] once wrote, "Trying to define 'fascism' is like trying to nail jelly to the wall."{{sfnp|Kershaw|2016|p=228}} Each group described as "fascist" has at least some unique elements, and frequently definitions of "fascism" have been criticized as either too broad or too narrow.{{sfnmp|Payne|1980|1p=7|2a1=Griffiths|2y=2000|2p=}}{{pn|date=May 2025}} According to many scholars, fascists&mdash;especially when they are in power&mdash;have historically attacked communism, socialism, and parliamentary liberalism, attracting support primarily from the far-right.<ref name="Laqueur 1997 p223">{{harvp|Laqueur|1997|p=223}}; {{harvp|Eatwell|1996|p=39}}; {{harvp|Griffin|1991|pp=185–201}}; {{harvp|Weber|1982|p=8}}</ref>

One of the schools of fascism studies understands fascism as a movement based on the myth of national rebirth, called [[palingenesis]].{{sfnp|Shenfield|2016|pp=6–15, 21–23}} Prominent members of the school include [[Stanley G. Payne]], [[Roger Griffin]], and [[Roger Eatwell]], who defined their theories as the "new consensus".{{sfn|Renton|1999|p=19}}
Payne's definition of fascism focuses on three concepts:{{sfnp|Payne|1980|p=7}}
# "Fascist negations" – [[anti-liberalism]], [[anti-communism]], and anti-[[conservatism]].
# "Fascist goals" – the creation of a nationalist [[dictatorship]] to regulate economic structure and to transform social relations within a modern, self-determined culture, and the expansion of the nation into an empire.
# "Fascist style" – a political aesthetic of romantic symbolism, mass mobilization, a positive view of violence, and promotion of masculinity, youth, and charismatic authoritarian leadership.{{sfnmp|Ramswell|2017|1p=9|2a1=Griffin|2a2=Feldman|2y=2004a|2p=258|Kallis|2003b|3pp=84–85|Renton|1999|4p=21}}
Eatwell defines fascism as "an ideology that strives to forge social rebirth based on a [[Holism|holistic]]-national radical [[Third Position|Third Way]]".{{sfnp|Eatwell|1996|p=24}} Roger Griffin follows the description of Payne, calling fascism "a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti-conservative nationalism", and adds an emphasis{{sfnp|Griffin|2003|p=3}}{{sfn|Renton|1999|p=19}} on the "mythic core" of fascism which he defines as a "palingenetic form of populist [[ultranationalism]]".{{sfnp|Griffin|1991|p=26}} According to Griffin, fascism as an ideology includes: "(i) the rebirth myth, (ii) populist ultra-nationalism, and (iii) the myth of decadence."{{sfnp|Griffin|1991|p=201}} Thus, [[palingenetic ultranationalism]] constitutes the minimum without which a "genuine fascism" is not possible according to Griffin,{{sfnp|Griffin|1996|pp=18–21}}<ref name="charisma">{{cite book |editor1-last=Pinto |editor1-first=Antonio Costa |editor2-last=Eatwell |editor2-first=Roger |editor2-link=Roger Eatwell |editor3-last=Larsen |editor3-first=Stein Ugelvik |title=Charisma and Fascism |year=2014 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |pages=xxiv-xxv |isbn=978-1317834533}}</ref> and fascism draws on ancient and arcane myths of racial, cultural, ethnic, and national origins to develop the fascist "[[New Man (utopian concept)|new man]]"{{'"}}{{sfnp|Ross|2017|p=5}} and acts as a "political religion" seeking to establish a community based on a new culture.<ref name="charisma"/> Griffin explored this 'mythic' or 'eliminable' core of fascism with his concept of ''post-fascism'' to explore the continuation of Nazism in the modern era.{{sfnp|Griffin|2008|loc=Chapter 8: Fascism's New Faces (and New Facelessness) in the 'Post-Fascist' Epoch}} Additionally, other historians{{which|date=November 2025}} have applied this minimalist core to explore ''proto-fascist'' movements.{{sfnp|Roel Reyes|2019|pp=310–311}}{{sfnp|Roel Reyes|2021|p=83}} 

While the theories of "new consensus" authors have proven to be very influential, they have also failed to establish a historiographic consensus and received criticism from other scholars, often as a static and isolated from context "[[ideal type]]" or set of ideas disregarding the dynamic, contradictory and syncretic nature of fascism and its context.<ref name="charisma"/>{{sfnmp|1a1=Paxton|1y=2004|1p=21-22|2a1=Renton|2y=1999|2p=19-25}}<ref name="newman">{{cite book|year=2023|chapter=The New Fascist Man in the 1930s Spain|title=The "New Man" in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-45|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|isbn=9781474281119|pages=223-224}}</ref> In particular, the critics pointed out the failure to address the contradiction between anti-conservatism and anti-communism, since fascism preserved the latter while achieving power through alliance conservatism, or that the majority of fascists sought to synthesize fascism with traditional religions and cultures instead of replacing them.{{sfn|Renton|1999|p=19-25}}<ref name="charisma"/> Griffin's 'minimal' criterion of national rebirth also received criticism as too broad, applicable to non-fascist movements,<ref name="charisma"/> or arbitrary, not applicable to certain regimes which may be considered fascist,{{sfnp|Shenfield|2016|pp=5-6}}<ref name="newman"/> and also as a rework of the '[[Totalitarianism#Nazism and Fascism|totalitarian]]' model of understanding fascism.<ref name="charisma"/>

[[Walter Laqueur]] sees the core tenets of fascism as "self-evident: nationalism; [[social Darwinism]]; racialism, the need for leadership, a new aristocracy, and obedience; and the negation of the ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution."{{sfnp|Laqueur|1997|p=96}}

Kershaw argues that the difference between fascism and other forms of right-wing authoritarianism in the [[interwar period]] is that the latter generally aimed "to conserve the existing social order", whereas fascism was "revolutionary", seeking to change society and obtain "total commitment" from the population.{{sfnp|Kershaw|2016|pp=228–229}}

In his book ''[[How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them]]'' (2018), [[Jason Stanley]] defined fascism thusly: <blockquote>[A] cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation ... The leader proposes that only he can solve it and all of his political opponents are enemies or traitors.</blockquote> Stanley says recent global events {{As of|2020|lc=y}}, including the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] and the [[2020–2023 United States racial unrest]], have substantiated his concern about how fascist rhetoric is showing up in politics and policies around the world.{{sfnp|Silva|2020}}

[[Cas Mudde]] and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser argue that although fascism "flirted with populism ... in an attempt to generate mass support", it is better seen as an elitist ideology.{{sfnp|Mudde|Kaltwasser|2017|pp=33–34|ps=: "... fascism flirted with populism, particularly during their movement phases, in an attempt to generate mass support."}} They cite in particular its exaltation of the Leader, the race, and the state, rather than the people. They see populism as a "thin-centered ideology" with a "restricted morphology" that necessarily becomes attached to "thick-centered" ideologies such as fascism, liberalism, or socialism. Thus populism can be found as an aspect of many specific ideologies, without necessarily being a defining characteristic of those ideologies. They refer to the combination of populism, authoritarianism and ultranationalism as "a marriage of convenience".{{sfnp|Mudde|Kaltwasser|2017|p=6|ps=: "... thin-centered ideologies have a restricted morphology, which necessarily appears attached to—and sometimes is even assimilated into—other ideologies. In fact, populism almost always appears attached to other ideological elements, which are crucial for the promotion of political projects that are appealing to a broader public. Consequently, by itself populism can offer neither complex nor comprehensive answers to the political questions that modern societies generate. ... [Populism] is not so much a coherent ideological tradition as a set of ideas that, in the real world, appears in combination with quite different, and sometimes contradictory, ideologies."}}

[[Robert Paxton]] says: <blockquote>[Fascism is] 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.{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|p=216}}</blockquote>

[[Umberto Eco]] lists fourteen "features that are typical of what [he] would like to call 'Ur-Fascism', or 'Eternal Fascism'. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of [[despotism]] or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it."{{sfnp|Eco|1995}} Historian [[John Lukacs]] argues that there is no such thing as generic fascism. He claims that [[Nazism]] and [[communism]] are essentially manifestations of [[populism]], and that states such as Nazi Germany and [[Fascist Italy (1922–1943)|Fascist Italy]] are more different from each other than they are similar.{{sfnp|Lukacs|1998|p=118}}

Historian [[Emilio Gentile]] has defined fascism thusly:
<blockquote>[A] modern political phenomenon, [[revolutionary]], [[anti-liberal]], and [[anti-Marxist]], organized in a militia party with a [[totalitarian]] conception of politics and the state, an activist and anti-theoretical ideology, with a mythical, virilistic and anti-hedonistic foundation, sacralized as a secular religion, which affirms the absolute primacy of the nation, understood as an ethnically homogeneous organic community, hierarchically organized in a [[corporate state]], with a bellicose vocation to the politics of greatness, power, and conquest aimed at creating a new order and a new civilization.{{sfnp|Gentile|2002|loc=Introduzione. È esistito il fascismo?}}</blockquote>

Historian and cultural critic [[Ruth Ben-Ghiat]] has described fascism as "the original phase of authoritarianism, along with early communism, when a population has undergone huge dislocations or they perceive that there's been changes in society that are very rapid, too rapid for their taste".{{sfnp|Pareene|Marsh|2023}}

Racism was a key feature of German fascism, for which [[the Holocaust]] was a high priority. According to ''The Historiography of Genocide'', "In dealing with the Holocaust, it is the consensus of historians that Nazi Germany targeted Jews as a race, not as a religious group."{{sfnp|Weiss-Wendt|Krieken|Cave|2008|p=73}} Several historians, such as Umberto Eco,{{sfnp|Eco|1995}} Kevin Passmore,{{sfnp|Passmore|2002|p=31}} and Moyra Grant,{{sfnp|Grant|2003|pp=60–61}} stress [[racism]] as a characteristic component of German fascism. Historian [[Robert Soucy]] stated, "Hitler envisioned the ideal German society as a {{lang|de|[[Volksgemeinschaft]]}}, a racially unified and hierarchically organized body in which the interests of individuals would be strictly subordinate to those of the nation, or Volk."{{sfnp|Encyclopedia Britannica ''Volksgemeinschaft''}} Kershaw noted that common factors of fascism included "the 'cleansing' of all those deemed not to belong—foreigners, ethnic minorities, 'undesirables'"—and belief in its own nation's superiority, even if it was not biological racism like in Nazism.{{sfnp|Kershaw|2016|pp=228–229}} Fascist philosophies vary by application, but remain distinct by one theoretical commonality: all traditionally fall into the far-right sector of any [[political spectrum]], catalyzed by afflicted class identities over conventional social inequities.<ref name="RoutledgeCompanion"/>

===Position on the political spectrum===
[[File:Francoist demonstration in Salamanca.jpg|thumb|Pro-government demonstration in [[Salamanca]], [[Francoist Spain]], in 1937. [[Francisco Franco]] was later labeled by some commentators the "last surviving fascist dictator".{{sfnp|Encyclopedia Britannica ''Franco's dictatorship''}}]]

Scholars place fascism on the [[far right]] of the political spectrum.<ref name="RoutledgeCompanion"/>{{sfnp|Holocaust Encyclopedia ''Fascism''}}<ref name="University-Aristotle-Hartley-Reich-Payne"/> Such scholarship focuses on its [[social conservatism]] and its [[authoritarian]] means of opposing [[egalitarianism]].<ref>{{harvp|Davies|Lynch|2002|pp=126–127}}; {{harvp|Zafirovski|2008|pp=137–138}}; {{harvp|Woodley|2010|pp=17–18, 26}}; {{harvp|Richardson|2017|pp=25–26, 34–35}}; {{harvp|Kallis|2003b|pp=234, 282}}</ref> Roderick Stackelberg places fascism—including Nazism, which he says is "a radical variant of fascism"—on the political right by explaining: "The more a person deems absolute equality among all people to be a desirable condition, the further left he or she will be on the ideological spectrum. The more a person considers inequality to be unavoidable or even desirable, the further to the right he or she will be."{{sfnp|Stackelberg|1999|pp=4–6}}

Fascism's origins are complex and include many seemingly contradictory viewpoints, ultimately centered on a mythos of national rebirth from decadence.{{sfnp|Griffin|2003|p=5}} Fascism was founded during [[World War I]] by Italian [[national syndicalists]] who drew upon both [[left-wing]] organizational tactics and [[right-wing]] political views.{{sfnp|Gregor|2009|p=191}} [[Italian fascism]] gravitated to the right in the early 1920s.{{sfnmp|1a1=Sternhell|1a2=Sznajder|1a3=Ashéri|1y=1994|1p=161|2a1=Borsella|2a2=Caso|2y=2007|2p=76}} A major element of fascist ideology that has been deemed to be far right is its stated goal to promote the right of a supposedly [[Supremacism|superior people]] to dominate, while purging society of supposedly inferior elements.{{sfnp|Woshinsky|2008|p=156}}

Mussolini and [[Giovanni Gentile]] described their ideology as right-wing in the political essay ''[[The Doctrine of Fascism]]'' (1932), stating: "We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right,' a fascist century."{{sfnmp|1a1=Schnapp|1a2=Sears|1a3=Stampino|1y=2000|1p=57|Mussolini|1935|2p=26}} Mussolini stated that fascism's position on the political spectrum was not a serious issue for fascists: "[F]ascism, sitting on the right, could also have sat on the mountain of the center. ... These words in any case do not have a fixed and unchanged meaning: they do have a variable subject to location, time and spirit. We don't give a damn about these empty terminologies and we despise those who are terrorized by these words."<ref>Mussolini quoted in {{harvp|Gentile|2005|p=205}}</ref>

Major Italian groups politically on the right, especially rich landowners and big business, feared an uprising by groups on the left, such as sharecroppers and labour unions.{{sfnp|Baranski|West|2001|pp=50–51}} They welcomed fascism and supported its violent suppression of opponents on the left.{{sfnp|Encyclopedia Britannica ''The fascist era''}} The accommodation of the political right into the Italian Fascist movement in the early 1920s created internal factions within the movement. The "fascist left" included [[Michele Bianchi]], [[Giuseppe Bottai]], [[Angelo Oliviero Olivetti]], [[Sergio Panunzio]], and [[Edmondo Rossoni]], who were committed to advancing national syndicalism as a replacement for parliamentary liberalism in order to modernize the economy and advance the interests of workers and the common people.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=112}} The "fascist right" included members of the paramilitary [[Blackshirts]] and former members of the [[Italian Nationalist Association]] (ANI).{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=112}} The Blackshirts wanted to establish fascism as a complete dictatorship, while the former ANI members, including [[Alfredo Rocco]], sought to institute an authoritarian corporatist state to replace the liberal state in Italy while retaining the existing elites.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=112}} Upon accommodating the political right, there arose a group of monarchist fascists who sought to use fascism to create an [[absolute monarchy]] under King [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]].{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=112}}

A number of post-World War II fascist movements described themselves as a "third position", outside the traditional political spectrum.{{sfnp|Shaffer|2018|pp=83–91}} [[Falange Española de las JONS]] leader [[José Antonio Primo de Rivera]] said: "[B]asically the Right stands for the maintenance of an economic structure, albeit an unjust one, while the Left stands for the attempt to subvert that economic structure, even though the subversion thereof would entail the destruction of much that was worthwhile."{{sfnp|Neocleous|1997|p=54}}

===''Fascist'' as a pejorative===
{{Main|Fascist (insult)}}
The term ''fascist'' has been used as a [[pejorative]],{{sfnp|Gregor|2005|p=4}} regarding varying movements across the far right of the political spectrum. [[George Orwell]] noted in 1944 that the term had been used to denigrate diverse positions "in internal politics". Orwell said that while fascism is "a political and economic system" that was inconvenient to define, "''as used'', the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. ... almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist{{'"}},{{sfnp|Orwell|2019}} and in 1946 wrote that {{"'}}Fascism' has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies something not desirable."{{sfnp|Orwell|1946}} Richard Griffiths of the [[University of Wales]] wrote in 2000 that "fascism" is the "most misused, and over-used word, of our times".{{sfnp|Griffiths|2000|p=1}} ''Fascist'' is sometimes applied to post-World War II organizations and ways of thinking that academics more commonly term ''[[neo-fascist]]''.{{sfnp|Woolf|1981|p=18}}

Despite fascist movements' history of [[anti-communism]], [[Communist state]]s have sometimes been referred to as ''fascist'', typically as an insult. It has been applied to [[Marxist–Leninist]] regimes in [[Cuba]] under [[Fidel Castro]] and [[Vietnam]] under [[Ho Chi Minh]].{{sfnp|Griffin|Feldman|2004a|p=231}} Chinese Marxists used the term to denounce the [[Soviet Union]] during the [[Sino-Soviet split]], and the Soviets used the term to denounce Chinese Marxists,{{sfnp|Quarantotto|1976}} in addition to [[social democracy]], coining a new term in ''[[social fascism]]''. In the United States, [[Herbert Matthews]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' asked in 1946: "Should we now place Stalinist Russia in the same category as Hitlerite Germany? Should we say that she is Fascist?"{{sfnp|Adler|Paterson|1970|p=1046}} [[J. Edgar Hoover]], longtime [[FBI]] director and ardent anti-communist, wrote extensively of [[red fascism]].{{sfnp|Hoover|1947}} The [[Ku Klux Klan]] in the 1920s was sometimes called ''fascist''. Historian Peter Amann states that, "Undeniably, the Klan had some traits in common with European fascism—chauvinism, racism, a mystique of violence, an affirmation of a certain kind of archaic traditionalism—yet their differences were fundamental ... [the KKK] never envisioned a change of political or economic system."{{sfnp|Amann|1986|p=562}}

==History==
{{Further|Fascism and ideology}}

===Background and 19th-century roots===
[[File:Plato_Silanion_Musei_Capitolini_MC1377.jpg|thumb|160px|Bust of the ancient Greek philosopher [[Plato]], whose works were admired by Mussolini<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ludwig |first1=Emile |last2=Mussolini |first2=Benito |author2-link=Benito Mussolini |title=Talks with Mussolini |location=Boston |publisher=[[Little Brown & Co.]] |date=1933 |page=130}}</ref>]]
[[File:Hoplit.png|thumb|160px|Depiction of a Greek Hoplite warrior; ancient [[Sparta]] has been considered an inspiration for fascist and quasi-fascist movements, such as [[Nazism]] and quasi-fascist [[Metaxism]]<ref>{{harvp|Roche|2017|pp=3–28}}; {{harvp|Cole|2019}}; {{harvp|Grafton|Most|Settis|2010|p=353}}; {{harvp|Fischer|2007|p=184}}</ref>]] 

Early influences that shaped the ideology of fascism have been dated back to [[ancient Greece]]. Mussolini had a strong attachment to the works of the Greek philosopher [[Plato]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ludwig |first1=Emile |last2=Mussolini |first2=Benito |author2-link=Benito Mussolini |title=Talks with Mussolini |location=Boston |publisher=Little Brown & Co. |date=1933 |page=130}}</ref> In October 1943, Mussolini was reported to have kept Plato's work ''[[Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' on his desk at home, and he claimed to consult it from time to time before beginning his work each day.<ref name="Moseley">{{cite book |last1=Moseley |first1=Ray |title=Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce |date=2004 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1-58979-095-7 |page=39}}</ref> The political culture of ancient Greece and specifically the ancient Greek city state of [[Sparta]] under [[Lycurgus of Sparta|Lycurgus]], with its emphasis on militarism and racial purity, were admired by the Nazis.{{sfnp|Roche|2017|pp=3–28}}{{sfnp|Cole|2019}}{{sfnp|Grafton|Most|Settis|2010|p=353}} Hitler emphasized that Germany should adhere to Hellenic values and culture – particularly that of ancient Sparta.{{sfnp|Roche|2017|pp=3–28}}{{sfnp|Cole|2019}}

Plato supported many similar political positions to fascism.<ref name=Sharma>{{cite book |first1=R.N. |last1=Sharma |title=Plato: An Inter-disciplinary Perspective |location=New Delhi, India |publisher=Atlantic Publishers and Distributors |year=1991 |pages=131–132}}</ref> In his work ''Republic'' (c. 380 BC),<ref name="Contemporary Political Theory 2007. Pp. 705">{{cite book|title=Contemporary Political Theory: New Dimensions, Basic Concepts and Major Trends |edition=12th |location=New Delhi, India |publisher=Sterling Publishers Private Ltd |date=2007 |pages=705}}</ref> he emphasized the need for a philosopher king in an ideal state.<ref name="Contemporary Political Theory 2007. Pp. 705"/> He believed the ideal state would be ruled by an elite class of rulers known as "Guardians" and rejected the idea of [[social equality]].<ref name=Sharma/> He believed in an authoritarian state.<ref name=Sharma/> He held [[Athenian democracy]] in contempt by saying: "The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals".<ref name=Sharma/> Like fascism, he emphasized that individuals must adhere to laws and perform duties while declining to grant individuals rights to limit or reject state interference in their lives.<ref name=Sharma/> He claimed that an ideal state would have education that was designed to promote able rulers and warriors.<ref name=Sharma/> However, there are also significant differences between Plato's ideals and fascism.<ref name=Sharma/> Unlike fascism, he never promoted expansionism and he was opposed to offensive war.<ref name=Sharma/>

[[Georges Valois]], founder of the first non-Italian fascist party [[Faisceau]],{{sfnp|Sternhell|1976}} claimed the roots of fascism stemmed from the late 18th century [[Jacobin (politics)|Jacobin]] movement, seeing in its totalitarian nature a foreshadowing of the fascist state.{{sfnp|Camus|Lebourg|2017|p=20}} Historian [[George Mosse]] similarly analyzed fascism as an inheritor of the [[mass movement (politics)|mass ideology]] and [[civil religion]] of the [[French Revolution]], as well as a result of the brutalization of societies in 1914–1918.{{sfnp|Camus|Lebourg|2017|p=20}}

Historians such as [[Irene Collins]] and Howard C. Payne see [[Napoleon III]], who ran a 'police state' and suppressed the media, as a forerunner of fascism.{{sfnp|Williams|2015|p=28}} According to [[David Thomson (historian)|David Thomson]],{{sfnp|Thomson|1966|p=293}} the Italian [[Risorgimento]] of 1871 led to the 'nemesis of fascism'. [[William L Shirer]]{{sfnp|Shirer|1960|p=97}} sees a continuity from the views of [[Fichte]] and [[Hegel]], through [[Otto von Bismarck|Bismarck]], to Hitler; [[Robert Gerwarth]] speaks of a 'direct line' from Bismarck to Hitler.{{sfnp|Gerwarth|2005|p=166}} Julian Dierkes sees fascism as a 'particularly violent form of [[imperialism]]'.{{sfnp|Dierkes|2010|p=54}}

[[Marcus Garvey]], founder and leader of the [[Universal Negro Improvement Association]], had described the organisation as "the first fascists".{{sfnp|Gregor|2006|p=111}}{{undue inline|date=August 2025|reason=This lacks context, and Gregor's views of both race and fascism are controversial.}} In 1938, [[C. L. R. James]] wrote "all the things that Hitler was to do so well later, Marcus Garvey was doing in 1920 and 1921".{{sfnp|Gilroy|2000|p=70}}

===Fin de siècle era and lead up to World War I (1880–1914)===
{{See also|National syndicalism}}
The historian [[Zeev Sternhell]] has traced the ideological roots of fascism back to the 1880s and in particular to the {{lang|fr|[[fin de siècle]]}} theme of that time.{{sfnmp|Sternhell|1998|1p=169|Payne|1995|2pp=23–24}} The theme was based on a revolt against [[materialism]], [[rationalism]], [[positivism]], [[bourgeois]] society, and [[democracy]].{{sfnp|Sternhell|1998|p=170}} The {{lang|fr|fin-de-siècle}} generation supported [[emotionalism (disorder)|emotionalism]], [[irrationalism]], [[subjectivism]], and [[vitalism]].{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=24}} They regarded civilization as being in crisis, and as requiring a massive and total solution.{{sfnp|Sternhell|1998|p=170}} Their intellectual school considered the individual as only one part of the larger collectivity, which should not be viewed as a numerical sum of atomized individuals.{{sfnp|Sternhell|1998|p=170}} They condemned the rationalistic, [[liberal individualism]] of society and the dissolution of social links in bourgeois society.{{sfnp|Sternhell|1998|p=170}}

The {{lang|fr|fin-de-siècle}} outlook was influenced by various intellectual developments, including [[Darwinian]] biology, {{lang|de|[[Gesamtkunstwerk]]}}, [[Arthur de Gobineau]]'s racialism, [[Gustave Le Bon]]'s [[psychology]], and the philosophies of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]], and [[Henri Bergson]].{{sfnp|Sternhell|1998|p=171}} Social Darwinism, which gained widespread acceptance, made no distinction between physical and social life, and viewed the human condition as an unceasing struggle to achieve the [[survival of the fittest]].{{sfnp|Sternhell|1998|p=171}} It challenged positivism's claim of deliberate and rational choice as the determining behaviour of humans, with social Darwinism focusing on heredity, race, and environment.{{sfnp|Sternhell|1998|p=171}} Its emphasis on {{linktext|biogroup}} identity and the role of organic relations within societies fostered the legitimacy and appeal of nationalism.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=29}} New theories of social and political psychology rejected the notion of human behaviour being governed by rational choice and instead claimed that emotion was more influential in political issues than reason.{{sfnp|Sternhell|1998|p=171}} Nietzsche's argument that "God is dead", coinciding with his attack on the "[[herd mentality]]" of [[Christianity]], on democracy, and on modern [[Collectivism and individualism|collectivism]], his concept of the {{lang|de|[[Übermensch]]}}, and his advocacy of the [[will to power]] as a primordial instinct, were major influences upon many of the {{lang|fr|fin-de-siècle}} generation.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|pp=24–25}} Bergson's claim of the existence of an {{lang|fr|élan vital}}, or vital instinct, centred upon free choice and rejected the processes of materialism and determinism; this challenged [[Marxism]].{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=25}}

In his work ''The Ruling Class'' (1896), [[Gaetano Mosca]] developed the theory that claims that in all societies an "organized minority" would dominate and rule over an "disorganized majority",{{sfnmp|Outhwaite|2006|1p=442|Koon|1985|2p=6}} stating that there are only two classes in society, "the governing" (the organized minority) and "the governed" (the disorganized majority).{{sfnp|Caforio|2006|p=12}} He claims that the organized nature of the organized minority makes it irresistible to any individual of the disorganized majority.{{sfnp|Caforio|2006|p=12}}

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[[French nationalist]] and [[reactionary]] monarchist [[Charles Maurras]] influenced fascism.{{sfnp|Carroll|1998|p=92}} Maurras promoted what he called [[integral nationalism]], which called for the organic unity of a nation, and insisted that a powerful monarch was an ideal leader of a nation. Maurras distrusted what he considered the democratic mystification of the [[general will|popular will]] that created an impersonal collective subject.{{sfnp|Carroll|1998|p=92}} He claimed that a powerful monarch was a personified sovereign who could exercise authority to unite a nation's people.{{sfnp|Carroll|1998|p=92}} Fascists idealized Maurras' integral nationalism, but modified into a modernized revolutionary form - devoid of Maurras' [[monarchism]].{{sfnp|Carroll|1998|p=92}}

French revolutionary [[syndicalist]] [[Georges Sorel]] (1847-1922) promoted the legitimacy of [[political violence]] in his work ''[[Reflections on Violence]]'' (1908) and in other works in which he advocated radical syndicalist action to achieve a revolution to overthrow capitalism and the bourgeoisie through a [[general strike]].{{sfnp|Antliff|2007|pp=75–81}} In ''Reflections on Violence'', Sorel emphasized need for a revolutionary [[political religion]].{{sfnp|Antliff|2007|p=81}} Also in his work ''The Illusions of Progress'' (1908), Sorel denounced democracy as reactionary, stating that "nothing is more aristocratic than democracy".{{sfnp|Antliff|2007|p=77}} By 1909, after the failure of a syndicalist general strike in France, Sorel and his supporters left the radical left and went to the radical right, where they sought to merge militant Catholicism and French patriotism with their views—advocating anti-republican Christian French patriots as ideal revolutionaries.{{sfnp|Antliff|2007|p=82}} Initially, Sorel had officially been a [[Revisionism (Marxism)|revisionist]] of Marxism, but by 1910 he had announced his abandonment of socialist literature. In 1914, using an aphorism of [[Benedetto Croce]], he claimed that "socialism is dead" because of the "decomposition of Marxism".{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=78}} Sorel began to support reactionary Maurrassian nationalism beginning in 1909, and this influenced his works.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=78}} Maurras held interest in merging his nationalist ideals with Sorelian [[syndicalism]], known as [[Sorelianism]], as a means to confront democracy.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=82}} Maurras stated, "A socialism liberated from the democratic and cosmopolitan element fits nationalism well as a well made glove fits a beautiful hand."{{sfnp|Holmes|2000|p=60}}

The fusion of Maurrassian nationalism and Sorelian syndicalism influenced radical Italian nationalist [[Enrico Corradini]] (1865-1931).{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=163}} Corradini spoke of the need for a nationalist-syndicalist movement, led by elitist aristocrats and anti-democrats who shared a revolutionary syndicalist commitment to direct action and a willingness to fight.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p= 163}} Corradini spoke of Italy as being a "proletarian nation" that needed to pursue imperialism in order to challenge the "[[plutocratic]]" French and British.{{sfnp|Blinkhorn|2006|p=12}} Corradini's views were part of a wider set of perceptions within the right-wing Italian Nationalist Association (ANI, founded in 1910), which claimed that Italy's economic backwardness was caused by corruption in its political class, liberalism, and division caused by "ignoble socialism".{{sfnp|Blinkhorn|2006|p=12}}

The ANI had ties and influence among [[conservatives]], Catholics, and the [[business sector|business community]].{{sfnp|Blinkhorn|2006|p=12–13}} Italian national syndicalists held a common set of principles: the rejection of bourgeois values, democracy, liberalism, Marxism, [[Internationalism (politics)|internationalism]], and [[pacifism]], and the promotion of [[heroism]], vitalism, and violence.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=32}} The ANI claimed that liberal democracy was no longer compatible with the modern world, and advocated a strong state and imperialism. They believed that humans are naturally predatory, and that nations are in a constant struggle in which only the strongest would survive.{{sfnp|Gentile|2003|p=6}}

[[File:Manifesto of Futurism.jpg|thumb|[[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]], Italian modernist author of the [[Futurist Manifesto]] (1909) and later the co-author of the [[Fascist Manifesto]] (1919){{sfnp|Elazar|2001|p=73}}]]

[[Futurism]] was both an artistic-cultural movement and initially a political movement in Italy led by [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]] (1876-1944) who wrote the [[Manifesto of Futurism]] (1908), that championed the causes of modernism, action, and political violence as necessary elements of politics while denouncing liberalism and parliamentary politics.<ref name="20th-Century art book">{{cite book |last=Lawson |first=Susannah |year=2001 |title=The 20th-Century art book |page=506 |publisher=Phaidon Press |location=London |isbn=978-0714835426 |edition=Reprinted.}}</ref><ref name="I manifesti del futurismo">{{cite book |last=Marinetti |first=Filippo Tommaso |date=1909 |url=https://archive.org/details/imanifestidelfut28144gut |title=I manifesti del futurismo |language=it |trans-title=The Manifestos of Futurism}}</ref>{{pn|date=August 2025}} Marinetti rejected conventional democracy - based on majority rule and egalitarianism - for a new form of democracy, promoting what he described in his work "The Futurist Conception of Democracy" as the following: "We are therefore able to give the directions to create and to dismantle to numbers, to quantity, to the mass, for with us number, quantity and mass will never be—as they are in Germany and Russia—the number, quantity and mass of mediocre men, incapable and indecisive."{{sfnp|Hewitt|1993|p=153}}

Futurism influenced fascism in its emphasis on recognizing the virile nature of violent action and war as necessities of modern civilization.{{sfnp|Gori|2004|p=14}} Marinetti promoted the need of physical training of young men, saying that, in male education, gymnastics should take precedence over books. He advocated segregation of the genders because womanly sensibility must not enter men's education, which he claimed must be "lively, bellicose, muscular and violently dynamic".{{sfnp|Gori|2004|pp=20–21}}

===World War I and its aftermath (1914–1929)===
[[File:Benito Mussolini 1917.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Benito Mussolini]] in 1917 as an Italian soldier in [[World War I]]]]
At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the Italian political left became severely split over its position on the war. The [[Italian Socialist Party]] (PSI) opposed the war but a number of Italian revolutionary syndicalists supported war against Germany and Austria-Hungary on the grounds that their reactionary regimes had to be defeated to ensure the success of socialism.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=175}} Angelo Oliviero Olivetti formed a pro-interventionist ''[[fascio]]'' called the [[Fascio Rivoluzionario d'Azione Internazionalista|Revolutionary Fasces of International Action]] in October 1914.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=175}} Benito Mussolini upon being expelled from his position as chief editor of the PSI's newspaper {{lang|it|[[Avanti! (Italian newspaper)|Avanti!]]}} for his anti-German stance, joined the interventionist cause in a separate ''fascio''.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=214}} The term "fascism" was first used in 1915 by members of Mussolini's movement, the Fasces of Revolutionary Action.{{sfnp|O'Brien|2014|p=52}}

The first meeting of the Fasces of Revolutionary Action was held on 24 January 1915{{sfnp|O'Brien|2014|p=41}} when Mussolini declared that it was necessary for Europe to resolve its national problems—including national borders—of Italy and elsewhere "for the ideals of justice and liberty for which oppressed peoples must acquire the right to belong to those national communities from which they descended."{{sfnp|O'Brien|2014|p=41}} Attempts to hold mass meetings were ineffective and the organization was regularly harassed by government authorities and socialists.{{sfnp|Gregor|1979|pp=195–196}}

[[File:Hitler World War I.jpg|thumb|Adolf Hitler as a German soldier in World War I]]
Similar political ideas arose in Germany after the outbreak of the war. German sociologist [[Johann Plenge]] spoke of the rise of a "National Socialism" in Germany within what he termed the "ideas of 1914" that were a declaration of war against the "ideas of 1789" (the French Revolution).{{sfnp|Kitchen|2006|p=205}} According to Plenge, the "ideas of 1789"—such as the rights of man, democracy, individualism and liberalism—were being rejected in favor of "the ideas of 1914" that included "German values" of duty, discipline, law and order.{{sfnp|Kitchen|2006|p=205}} Plenge believed that racial solidarity ({{lang|de|Volksgemeinschaft}}) would replace class division and that "racial comrades" would unite to create a socialist society in the struggle of "proletarian" Germany against "capitalist" Britain.{{sfnp|Kitchen|2006|p=205}} He believed that the [[Spirit of 1914]] manifested itself in the concept of the People's League of National Socialism.{{sfnp|Hüppauf|1997|p=92}} This National Socialism was a form of [[state socialism]] that rejected the "idea of boundless freedom" and promoted an economy that would serve the whole of Germany under the leadership of the state.{{sfnp|Hüppauf|1997|p=92}} This National Socialism was opposed to capitalism because of the components that were against "the national interest" of Germany but insisted that National Socialism would strive for greater efficiency in the economy.{{sfnp|Hüppauf|1997|p=92}} Plenge advocated an authoritarian rational ruling elite to develop National Socialism through a hierarchical [[Technocracy|technocratic]] state.{{sfnp|Rohkrämer|2007|p=130}}

====Impact of World War I====
[[File:Italian Arditi.jpg|thumb|Members of Italy's {{lang|it|[[Arditi]]}} corps, shown here in 1918 holding daggers, a symbol of their group. They were formed in 1917 as groups of soldiers trained for dangerous missions, characterized by a refusal to surrender and a willingness to fight to the death. Their black uniforms inspired those of the Italian Fascist movement.{{sfnp|Corni|2015}}]]

Fascists viewed World War I as bringing revolutionary changes in the nature of war, society, the state and technology, as the advent of [[total war]] and mass mobilization had broken down the distinction between civilian and combatant, as civilians had become a critical part in economic production for the war effort and thus arose a "military citizenship" in which all citizens were involved to the military in some manner during the war.{{sfnmp|Griffin|2006|1pp=140–141|Gentile|2006b|2p=670|Mann|2004|3p=65}} World War I had resulted in the rise of a powerful state capable of mobilizing millions of people to serve on the front lines or provide economic production and logistics to support those on the front lines, as well as having unprecedented authority to intervene in the lives of citizens.{{sfnmp|Griffin|2006|1pp=140–141|Gentile|2006b|2p=670|Mann|2004|3p=65}} Fascists viewed technological developments of weaponry and the state's total mobilization of its population in the war as symbolizing the beginning of a new era fusing state power with [[mass politics]], technology and particularly the mobilizing myth that they contended had triumphed over the myth of progress and the era of liberalism.{{sfnmp|Griffin|2006|1pp=140–141|Gentile|2006b|2p=670}}

====Impact of the October Revolution in Russia====
{{see also|October Revolution}}

The [[October Revolution]] of 1917, in which [[Bolshevik]] communists led by [[Vladimir Lenin]] seized power in Russia, greatly influenced the development of fascism.{{sfnp|Umland|2006|pp=95–96}} In 1917, Mussolini, as leader of the [[Fasces of Revolutionary Action]], praised the October Revolution, but later he became unimpressed with Lenin, regarding him as merely a new version of [[Tsar Nicholas II]].{{sfnp|Neville|2004|p=36}} After World War I, fascists commonly campaigned on anti-Marxist agendas.{{sfnp|Umland|2006|pp=95–96}}

[[Andreas Umland]] argues that there are similarities between fascism and Bolshevism, including that they believed in the necessity of a vanguard leadership, showed contempt for bourgeois values, and had totalitarian ambitions.{{sfnp|Umland|2006|pp=95–96}} He says that in practice both have commonly emphasized revolutionary action, proletarian nation theories, one-party states, and party-armies;{{sfnp|Umland|2006|pp=95–96}} With the antagonism between [[anti-interventionist]] Marxists and pro-[[Interventionism (politics)|interventionist]] fascists complete by the end of the war, the two sides became irreconcilable.{{cn|date=July 2025}} The fascists presented themselves as [[anti-communists]] and as especially opposed to the [[Marxists]].{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=178}} In 1919, Mussolini consolidated control over the fascist movement, known as {{lang|it|[[Sansepolcrismo]]}}, with the founding of the ''[[Italian Fasces of Combat]]''.{{sfnp|Encyclopedia Britannica ''The fascist era''}}

====Fascist Manifesto and Charter of Carnaro====
[[File:Promised Borders of the Tready of London.png|thumb|Territories promised to Italy by the [[Treaty of London (1915)]]: [[Trentino-Alto Adige]], the [[Julian March]] and [[Dalmatia]] (tan) and the [[Snežnik (plateau)|Snežnik Plateau]] area (green).<ref name="treatyOfLondon">{{cite wikisource|title= Agreement between France, Russia, Great Britain and Italy, signed at London, April 26, 1915|wslink= Treaty of London (1915)|location= London|ref={{harvid|Treaty|1920}}|oclc= 807191361|publisher= [[H.M. Stationery Office]]|year= 1920}}</ref> However, after World War I, while Italy annexed the capital city [[Zadar|Zara]] of Dalmatia the rest of Dalmatia was not assigned to Italy but to [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].{{cn|date=August 2025}}]]

In 1919, [[Alceste De Ambris]] and [[futurist]] movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti created "[[The Manifesto of the Italian Fasces of Combat]]".{{sfnp|Elazar|2001|p=73}} The Fascist Manifesto was presented on 6 June 1919 in the fascist newspaper {{lang|it|[[Il Popolo d'Italia]]}} and supported the creation of [[universal suffrage]], including [[women's suffrage]] (the latter being realized only partly in late 1925, with all opposition parties banned or disbanded);{{sfnp|Passmore|2003|p=116}} [[proportional representation]] on a regional basis; government representation through a [[corporatist]] system of "National Councils" of experts, selected from professionals and tradespeople, elected to represent and hold legislative power over their respective areas, including labour, industry, transportation, public health, and communications, among others; and abolition of the [[Senate of the Kingdom of Italy]].{{sfnp|Borsella|Caso|2007|p=69}} The Fascist Manifesto supported the creation of an [[eight-hour work day]] for all workers, a [[minimum wage]], worker representation in industrial management, equal confidence in labour unions as in industrial executives and public servants, reorganization of the transportation sector, revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance, reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55, a strong [[progressive tax]] on capital, confiscation of the property of religious institutions and abolishment of bishoprics, and revision of military contracts to allow the government to seize 85% of profits.{{sfnp|Borsella|Caso|2007|pp=69–70}} It also called for the fulfillment of expansionist aims in the Balkans and other parts of the Mediterranean, the creation of a short-service national militia to serve defensive duties, [[nationalization]] of the armaments industry, and a foreign policy designed to be peaceful but also competitive.{{sfnp|Borsella|Caso|2007|p=70}}

The next events that influenced the fascists in Italy were the raid of [[Fiume (city)|Fiume]] by Italian nationalist [[Gabriele d'Annunzio]] and the founding of the [[Charter of Carnaro]] in 1920.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=186}} D'Annunzio and De Ambris designed the Charter, which advocated national-syndicalist corporatist [[productionism]] alongside D'Annunzio's political views.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=187}} Many fascists saw the Charter of Carnaro as an ideal constitution for a fascist Italy.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=189}} This behaviour of aggression towards Yugoslavia and [[South Slavs]] was pursued by Italian fascists with their persecution of South Slavs—especially Slovenes and Croats.{{sfnp|Hehn|2005|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=nOALhEZkYDkC&pg=PA45 44–45]}}{{sfnp|Millett|Murray|2010|p=184}} The Italians claimed Fiume on the principle of self-determination, disregarding the 50.4% of its population that were [[Yugoslavs]].{{sfnp|Encyclopedia Britannica ''Fiume question''}}

====Accommodating conservatives====
In 1920, militant strike activity by industrial workers reached its peak in Italy and 1919 and 1920 were known as the "Red Year" ({{lang|it|[[Biennio Rosso]]}}).{{sfnp|Borsella|Caso|2007|p=73}} Mussolini and the fascists took advantage of the situation by allying with industrial businesses and attacking workers and peasants in the name of preserving order and internal peace in Italy.{{sfnp|Borsella|Caso|2007|p=75}}

Fascists identified their primary opponents as the majority of socialists on the left who had opposed intervention in World War I.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=189}} The fascists and the Italian political right held common ground: both held Marxism in contempt, discounted class consciousness and believed in the rule of elites.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=193}} The fascists assisted the anti-socialist campaign by allying with the other parties and the conservative right in a mutual effort to destroy the Italian Socialist Party and labour organizations committed to class identity above national identity.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=193}}

Fascism sought to accommodate Italian conservatives by making major alterations to its political agenda—abandoning its previous populism, [[republicanism]] and [[anticlericalism]], adopting policies in support of [[free enterprise]] and accepting the [[Catholic Church]] and the monarchy as institutions in Italy.{{sfnp|De Grand|2000|p=145}} To appeal to Italian conservatives, fascism adopted policies such as promoting [[family values]], including policies designed to reduce the number of women in the workforce—limiting the woman's role to that of a mother. The fascists banned literature on birth control and increased penalties for abortion in 1926, declaring both crimes against the state.{{sfnp|Blinkhorn|2003|p=14}}

Although fascism adopted a number of anti-modern positions designed to appeal to people upset with the new trends in sexuality and women's rights—especially those with a reactionary point of view—the fascists sought to maintain fascism's revolutionary character, with Angelo Oliviero Olivetti saying: "Fascism would like to be conservative, but it will [be] by being revolutionary."{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|p=190}} The Fascists supported revolutionary action and committed to secure law and order to appeal to both conservatives and syndicalists.{{sfnp|Blinkhorn|2003|p=22}}

Prior to fascism's accommodations to the political right, fascism was a small, urban, northern Italian movement that had about a thousand members.{{sfnp|Borsella|Caso|2007|p=72}} After Fascism's accommodation of the political right, the fascist movement's membership soared to approximately 250,000 by 1921.{{sfnp|Borsella|Caso|2007|p=76}} A 2020 article by [[Daron Acemoğlu]], Giuseppe De Feo, Giacomo De Luca, and Gianluca Russo in the [[Center for Economic and Policy Research]], exploring the link between the threat of [[socialism]] and Mussolini's rise to power, found "a strong association between the Red Scare in Italy and the subsequent local support for the Fascist Party in the early 1920s."{{sfnp|Acemoğlu|De Feo|De Luca|Russo|2020}} According to the authors, it was local elites and large landowners who played an important role in boosting Fascist Party activity and support, which did not come from socialists' core supporters but from [[centre-right]] voters, as they viewed traditional centre-right parties as ineffective in stopping socialism and so turned to the fascists.{{sfnp|Acemoğlu|De Feo|De Luca|Russo|2020}} In 2003, historian Adrian Lyttelton wrote: "The expansion of Fascism in the rural areas was stimulated and directed by the reaction of the farmers and landowners against the peasant leagues of both Socialists and Catholics."{{sfnp|Acemoğlu|De Feo|De Luca|Russo|2020}}

====Fascist violence====
Beginning in 1922, fascist paramilitaries escalated their strategy from one of attacking socialist offices and the homes of socialist leadership figures, to one of violent occupation of cities. The fascists met little serious resistance from authorities and proceeded to take over several northern Italian cities.{{sfnp|Paxton|2005|p=87}} The fascists attacked the headquarters of socialist and Catholic labour unions in Cremona and imposed forced Italianization upon the German-speaking population of [[Bolzano]].{{sfnp|Paxton|2005|p=87}}{{sfnp|Ferrandi|Obermair|2023|p=127–167}} After seizing these cities, the fascists made plans to take [[Rome]].{{sfnp|Paxton|2005|p=87}}

[[File:March on Rome.jpg|thumb|[[Benito Mussolini]] with three of the four [[quadrumvirs]] during the [[March on Rome]] (from left to right: unknown, [[Emilio de Bono|de Bono]], Mussolini, [[Italo Balbo|Balbo]] and [[Cesare Maria de Vecchi|de Vecchi]]){{sfnp|Morgan|1995|p=58}}]]

On 24 October 1922, the Fascist Party held its annual congress in [[Naples]], where Mussolini ordered Blackshirts to take control of public buildings and trains and to converge on three points around Rome.{{sfnp|Paxton|2005|p=87}} The Fascists managed to seize control of several post offices and trains in northern Italy while the Italian government, led by a left-wing coalition, was internally divided and unable to respond to the Fascist advances.{{sfnp|Paxton|2005|p=88}} King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy perceived the risk of bloodshed in Rome in response to attempting to disperse the Fascists to be too high.{{sfnp|Paxton|2005|p=90}} Victor Emmanuel III decided to appoint Mussolini as [[Prime Minister of Italy]] and Mussolini arrived in Rome on 30 October to accept the appointment.{{sfnp|Paxton|2005|p=90}} Fascist propaganda aggrandized this event, known as "[[March on Rome]]", as a "seizure" of power because of Fascists' heroic exploits.{{sfnp|Paxton|2005|p=87}}

===Fascist Italy===

====Mussolini in power====
[[File:Enrico De Nicola, il re e Mussolini all'uscita di Montecitorio, Roma 1923.jpg|thumb|right|[[Victor Emmanuel III]], [[King of Italy]], with Mussolini.]]

Upon being appointed Prime Minister of Italy, Mussolini had to form a coalition government because the fascists did not have control over the Italian parliament.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=110}} Mussolini's coalition government initially pursued [[Economic liberalism|economically liberal]] policies under the direction of liberal finance minister [[Alberto De Stefani]], a member of the Center Party, including balancing the budget through deep cuts to the civil service.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=110}} Initially, little drastic change in government policy had occurred and repressive police actions were limited.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=110}}

The fascists began their attempt to entrench fascism in Italy with the [[Acerbo Law]], which guaranteed a plurality of the seats in parliament to any party or coalition list in an election that received 25% or more of the vote.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=113}} Through considerable fascist violence and intimidation, the list won a majority of the vote, allowing many seats to go to the fascists.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=113}} In the aftermath of the election, a crisis and political scandal erupted after Socialist Party deputy [[Giacomo Matteotti]] was kidnapped and murdered by a Fascist.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=113}} The liberals and the leftist minority in parliament walked out in protest in what became known as the [[Aventine Secession (20th century)|Aventine Secession]].{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=114}} On 3 January 1925, Mussolini addressed the Fascist-dominated Italian parliament and declared that he was personally responsible for what happened, but insisted that he had done nothing wrong. Mussolini proclaimed himself dictator of Italy, assuming full responsibility over the government and announcing the dismissal of parliament.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=114}} From 1925 to 1929, fascism steadily became entrenched in power: opposition deputies were denied access to parliament, censorship was introduced and a December 1925 decree made Mussolini solely responsible to the King.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=115}}

====Catholic Church====
[[File:Firma_dei_Patti_Lateranensi_1929.jpg|thumb|right|The signing of the [[Lateran Treaty]], Mussolini shown on the right side of the photograph.]]
In 1929, the fascist regime briefly gained what was in effect a blessing of the Catholic Church after the regime signed a concordat with the Church, known as the [[Lateran Treaty]], which gave the papacy state sovereignty and financial compensation for the seizure of Church lands by the liberal state in the 19th century, but within two years the Church had renounced fascism in the Encyclical ''[[Non Abbiamo Bisogno]]'' as a "pagan idolatry of the state" which teaches "hatred, violence and irreverence".{{sfnp|Payne|1995|pp=119–120}} Not long after signing the agreement, by Mussolini's own confession, the Church had threatened to have him "excommunicated", in part because of his intractable nature, but also because he had "confiscated more issues of Catholic newspapers in the next three months than in the previous seven years."{{sfnp|Mack Smith|1983|p=162}} By the late 1930s, Mussolini became more vocal in his anti-clerical rhetoric, repeatedly denouncing the Catholic Church and discussing ways to depose the pope. He took the position that the "papacy was a malignant tumor in the body of Italy and must 'be rooted out once and for all,' because there was no room in Rome for both the Pope and himself."{{sfnp|Mack Smith|1983|pp=222–223}} In her 1974 book, Mussolini's widow Rachele stated that her husband had always been an atheist until near the end of his life, writing that her husband was "basically irreligious until the later years of his life."{{sfnp|Mussolini|1977|p=131}}

The Nazis in Germany employed similar anti-clerical policies.{{sfnp|Gellott|2006|pp=69–70}} The Gestapo confiscated hundreds of monasteries in Austria and Germany, evicted clergymen and laymen alike and often replaced crosses with swastikas.{{sfnp|von Lang|1979|p=221}} Referring to the swastika as "the Devil's Cross", church leaders found their youth organizations banned, their meetings limited and various Catholic periodicals censored or banned. Government officials eventually found it necessary to place "Nazis into editorial positions in the Catholic press."{{sfnp|Evans|2005|p=239}} Up to 2,720 clerics, mostly Catholics, were arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned inside of Germany's Dachau concentration camp, resulting in over 1,000 deaths.{{sfnp|Berben|1975|pp=276–277}}

====Corporatist economic system====
The fascist regime created a corporatist economic system in 1925 with creation of [[Pact of the Vidoni Palace|the Palazzo Vidoni Pact]], in which the Italian employers' association {{lang|it|[[Confindustria]]}} and fascist trade unions agreed to recognize each other as the sole representatives of Italy's employers and employees, excluding non-fascist trade unions.{{sfnp|Pollard|2006|p=150}} The Fascist regime first created a Ministry of Corporations that organized the Italian economy into 22 sectoral corporations, banned workers' strikes and lock-outs and in 1927 created the [[Labour Charter of 1927|Charter of Labour]], which established workers' rights and duties and created labour tribunals to arbitrate employer-employee disputes.{{sfnp|Pollard|2006|p=150}} In practice, the sectoral corporations exercised little independence and were largely controlled by the regime, and the employee organizations were rarely led by employees themselves, but instead by appointed Fascist party members.{{sfnp|Pollard|2006|p=150}}

====Aggressive colonial and foreign policies====
[[File:Al-Magroon Concentration Camp.jpg|thumb|right|Inmates at the [[Sid Ahmed el Maghrun concentration camp]] in [[Italian Libya|Libya]] during the [[Second Italo-Senussi War]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Graziani |first1=Rodolfo |title=Cirenaica pacificata |date=1932 |publisher=A. Mondadori |location=Milan |page=84}}</ref>]]
In the 1920s, Fascist Italy pursued an aggressive foreign policy that included ambitions to expand Italian territory.{{sfnp|Kallis|2000|p=132}} In response to revolt in the Italian colony of [[Libya]], Fascist Italy abandoned previous liberal-era colonial policy of cooperation with local leaders. Instead, claiming that Italians were a superior race to African races and thereby had the right to colonize the "inferior" Africans, it sought to settle 10 to 15 million Italians in Libya.{{sfnp|Ahmida|1994|pp=134–135}} This resulted in an aggressive military campaign known as the [[Second Italo-Senussi War]] also known as the Pacification of Libya against natives in Libya, including mass killings, the use of [[concentration camp]]s and the forced starvation of thousands of people.{{sfnp|Ahmida|1994|pp=134–135}} Italian authorities committed [[ethnic cleansing]] by forcibly expelling 100,000 [[Bedouins|Bedouin]] Cyrenaicans, half the population of Cyrenaica in Libya, from their settlements that was slated to be given to Italian settlers.{{sfnmp|Cardoza|2006|1p=109|2a1=Bloxham|2a2=Moses|2y=2010|2p=358}}

====Nazi adoption of the Italian model====
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 119-1486, Hitler-Putsch, München, Marienplatz.jpg|thumb|Nazis in Munich during the [[Beer Hall Putsch]] ]]
The March on Rome brought fascism international attention. One early admirer of the Italian fascists was Adolf Hitler, who less than a month after the March had begun to model himself and the [[Nazi Party]] upon Mussolini and the Fascists.{{sfnp|Kershaw|2000|p=182}} The Nazis, led by Hitler and the German war hero [[Erich Ludendorff]], attempted a "March on Berlin" modeled upon the March on Rome, which resulted in the failed [[Beer Hall Putsch]] in [[Munich]] in November 1923.{{sfnp|Jablonsky|1989|pp=20–26, 30}}

===International impact of the Great Depression and buildup to World War II===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-16196, Nürnberg, Reichsparteitag, SA- und SS-Appell.jpg|thumb|right|[[Nuremberg rallies|Nazi Party rally]] in [[Nuremberg]], Germany, in 1934<ref>{{cite web |title=Bundesarchiv - Bilddatenbank |url=https://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/dba/de/search/?query=Bild+102-16196 |website=Bundesarchiv |access-date=September 4, 2025}}</ref>]]
[[File:GömbösYMussolini1936.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungarian]] [[Prime Minister of Hungary|Prime Minister]] [[Gyula Gömbös]] (left) meeting with Mussolini (right).]]

The conditions of economic hardship caused by the [[Great Depression]] brought about an international surge of social unrest.{{sfnp|Tenorio|2023}} Fascist propaganda blamed the problems of the long depression of the 1930s on minorities and [[scapegoat]]s: "[[antisemitism|Judeo]]-[[Freemasonry|Masonic]]-[[Bolshevism|bolshevik]]" conspiracies, [[Left-wing politics#Nationalism, anti-imperialism and anti-nationalism|left-wing internationalism]] and the presence of immigrants.{{sfnp|Chomsky|2003|p=46}}

In Germany, it contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party, which resulted in the demise of the [[Weimar Republic]] and the establishment of the fascist regime, [[Nazi Germany]], under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.{{sfnp|Holocaust Encyclopedia ''"Degenerate" Art''}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Module 5: The Twin Drivers of Nazi Culture |url=https://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/virtualmuseum/mod5-1.html |website=The Madeleine and Monte Levy Virtual Museum of the Holocaust and the Resistance |publisher=[[McMaster University]] |language=en |access-date=10 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250317120658/https://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/virtualmuseum/mod5-1.html |archive-date=17 March 2025}}</ref> With the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to power in 1933, [[liberal democracy]] was dissolved in Germany and the Nazis mobilized the country for war, with expansionist territorial aims against several countries.{{sfnp|Shirer|1960|pp=199–201}}{{sfnp|Evans|2008|p=7}} In the 1930s, the Nazis implemented racial laws that deliberately discriminated against, [[Disfranchisement|disenfranchised]] and persecuted Jews and other racial and minority groups.{{sfnp|Holocaust Encyclopedia ''Anti-Jewish Legislation''}}

Fascist movements grew in strength elsewhere in Europe. Hungarian fascist [[Gyula Gömbös]] rose to power as Prime Minister of [[Hungary]] in 1932 and attempted to entrench his [[Unity Party (Hungary)|Unity Party]] throughout the country.{{cn|date=May 2025}} He created an eight-hour work day and a forty-eight-hour work week in industry; sought to entrench a corporatist economy; and pursued [[Irredentism|irredentist]] claims on Hungary's neighbors.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=270}} The fascist [[Iron Guard]] movement in [[Romania]] soared in political support after 1933, gaining representation in the Romanian government, and an Iron Guard member assassinated Romanian prime minister [[Ion Duca]].{{sfnp|Payne|1995|pp=282–288}} The Iron Guard was the only fascist movement outside Germany and Italy to [[National Legionary State|come to power]] without foreign assistance.{{sfnp|Gallagher|2005|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q1zoXqTR_dAC&pg=PA35 35]}}{{sfnp|Deletant|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8taGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA66 66]}} During the [[6 February 1934 crisis]], [[France]] faced the greatest domestic political turmoil since the [[Dreyfus Affair]] when the fascist [[Francist Movement]] and multiple far-right movements rioted ''[[en masse]]'' in Paris against the French government resulting in major political violence.{{sfnp|Woolf|1983|p=311}} A variety of [[Para-fascism|para-fascist]] governments that borrowed elements from fascism were formed during the Great Depression, including those of [[Greece]], [[Lithuania]], [[Poland]] and Yugoslavia.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=145}} In [[Netherlands|the Netherlands]], the [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands]] was at its height in the 1930s due to the Great Depression, especially in 1935 when it won almost eight percent of votes, until the year 1937.{{sfnp|Rietbergen|2000|pp=160–161}}

[[File:SaudacaoIntegralista1935.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Brazilian Integralism|Integralists]] marching in Brazil]]
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In the Americas, the [[Brazilian Integralism|Brazilian Integralists]] led by [[Plínio Salgado]] claimed as many as 200,000 members, although following coup attempts it faced a crackdown from the [[Estado Novo (Brazil)|Estado Novo]] of [[Getúlio Vargas]] in 1937.{{sfnp|Griffin|1991|pp=150–152}} In [[Peru]], the [[Revolutionary Union (Peru)|Revolutionary Union]] was a fascist political party which was in power 1931 to 1933. In the 1930s, the [[National Socialist Movement of Chile]] gained seats in [[Chile]]'s parliament and attempted a coup d'état that resulted in the [[Seguro Obrero massacre]] of 1938.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|pp=341–342}}

During the Great Depression, Mussolini promoted active state intervention in the economy. He denounced the contemporary "[[Supercapitalism (concept in Italian Fascism)|supercapitalism]]" that he claimed began in 1914 as a failure because of its alleged [[decadence]], its support for unlimited [[consumerism]], and its intention to create the "standardization of humankind."{{sfnp|Berghaus|2000|pp=136–137}} Fascist Italy created the [[Institute for Industrial Reconstruction]] (IRI), a giant state-owned firm and holding company that provided state funding to failing private enterprises.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=189}} The IRI was made a permanent institution in Fascist Italy in 1937, pursued fascist policies to create national [[autarky]] and had the power to take over private firms to maximize war production.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=189}} While Hitler's regime only nationalized 500 companies in key industries by the early 1940s,{{sfnp|Overy|1994|p=16}} Mussolini declared in 1934, "[t]hree-fourths of Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state."<ref>{{harvp|Toniolo|2013|p=59}}; Mussolini's speech to the Chamber of Deputies was on 26 May 1934.</ref>

Due to the worldwide depression, Mussolini's government was able to take over most of Italy's largest failing banks, who held controlling interest in many Italian businesses. The IRI reported in early 1934 that they held assets of "48.5 percent of the share capital of Italy", which later included the capital of the banks themselves.{{sfnp|Toniolo|2013|p=59}} Political historian Martin Blinkhorn estimated Italy's scope of state intervention and ownership "greatly surpassed that in Nazi Germany, giving Italy a public sector second only to that of Stalin's Russia."{{sfnp|Blinkhorn|2006|p=46}} In the late 1930s, Italy enacted manufacturing cartels, tariff barriers, currency restrictions and massive regulation of the economy to attempt to balance payments.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=72}} Italy's policy of autarky failed to achieve effective economic autonomy.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=72}} Nazi Germany similarly pursued an economic agenda with the aims of autarky and rearmament and imposed [[Protectionism|protectionist]] policies, including forcing the German steel industry to use lower-quality German iron ore rather than superior-quality imported iron.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=190}}

===World War II (1939–1945)===
[[File:WWII Europe 1941-1942 Map EN.png|thumb|right|Map of World War II in Europe from 1941-1942. Axis powers shown in red and Allied powers shown in blue.]]
In Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, both Mussolini and Hitler pursued territorial expansionist and interventionist foreign policy agendas from the 1930s through the 1940s culminating in World War II.{{cn|date=July 2025}} From 1935 to 1939, Germany and Italy escalated their demands for territorial claims and greater influence in world affairs. Italy [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|invaded Ethiopia in 1935]] resulting in its condemnation by the [[League of Nations]] and its widespread diplomatic isolation.{{cn|date=July 2025}} In 1936, Germany [[Remilitarization of the Rhineland|remilitarized the industrial Rhineland]], a region that had been ordered demilitarized by the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. In 1938, Germany annexed [[Federal State of Austria|Austria]]{{sfnp|Knaur|1951|pp=367–369}}{{sfnp|Luža|1975|p=52}} and Italy assisted Germany in resolving the diplomatic crisis between Germany versus Britain and France over claims on [[Czechoslovakia]] by arranging the [[Munich Agreement]] that gave Germany the [[Sudetenland]] and was perceived at the time to have averted a European war.{{sfnp|Corvaja|Miller|2008|pp=73–74}}{{sfnp|Goldstein|Lukes|1999|pp=59–60}} These hopes faded when Czechoslovakia was dissolved by the proclamation of the German client state of [[Slovak State|Slovakia]], followed by the next day of the occupation of the remaining [[Czech Lands]] and the proclamation of the German [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]]. At the same time from 1938 to 1939, Italy was demanding territorial and colonial concessions from France and Britain.{{sfnp|Rodogno|2006|p=47}} In 1939, Germany prepared for war with Poland, but attempted to gain territorial concessions from Poland through diplomatic means.{{sfnp|Davidson|2004|pp=371–372}} The Polish government did not trust Hitler's promises and refused to accept Germany's demands.{{sfnp|Davidson|2004|pp=371–372}}

The invasion of Poland by Germany was deemed unacceptable by Britain, France and their allies, leading to their mutual declaration of war against Germany and the start of World War II.{{sfn|Kochanski|2012|pp=34–93}}{{sfn|Steiner|2011|pp=690–692, 738–741}} In 1940, Mussolini led Italy into World War II on the side of the Axis. During World War II, the Axis Powers in Europe led by Nazi Germany participated in the extermination of millions of Poles, Jews, Roma, Sinti and others in the genocide known as the Holocaust.{{sfn|Cesarani|2016|p=xxix}}{{sfn|Niewyk|Nicosia|2000|pp=45–52}}{{sfn|Peck|Berenbaum|2002|p=311}} In 1943, after Italy faced multiple military failures, the complete reliance and subordination of Italy to Germany, the Allied invasion of Italy and the corresponding international humiliation, Mussolini [[25 Luglio|was removed as head of government and arrested]] on the order of King Victor Emmanuel III, who proceeded to dismantle the Fascist state and declared Italy's switching of allegiance to the Allied side.{{citation needed|date=July 2025}} Mussolini was rescued from arrest by German forces and led the German client state, the Italian Social Republic from 1943 to 1945. Nazi Germany faced multiple losses and steady Soviet and Western Allied offensives from 1943 to 1945.{{sfn|Bianchi|1963|pp=609, 704}}

On 28 April 1945, Mussolini was captured and executed by Italian communist partisans. On 30 April 1945, Hitler committed suicide.{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|pp=947–948}} Shortly afterwards, Germany surrendered and the Nazi regime was [[denazification|systematically dismantled]] by the occupying Allied powers. An International Military Tribunal was subsequently convened in [[Nuremberg#Nazi era|Nuremberg]]. Beginning in November 1945 and lasting through 1949, numerous Nazi political, military and economic leaders were [[Nuremberg trials|tried and convicted]] of [[war crime]]s, with many of the worst offenders being sentenced to death and executed.{{sfn|Grandi|1983|p=21}}{{sfn|De Felice|1996|p=1391}}

===Post-World War II (1945–2008)===
{{Main|Neo-fascism}}

The victory of the Allies over the Axis powers in [[World War II]] led to the collapse of many fascist regimes in Europe. The [[Nuremberg Trials]] convicted several Nazi leaders of crimes against humanity involving the Holocaust.{{sfnp|Hirsch|2020|p=386}} However, there remained several movements and governments that were ideologically related to fascism.{{sfnp|Deutsch|2009|p=20}}

[[Francisco Franco]]'s [[Falangist]] one-party state in Spain was officially neutral during World War II, although Franco's rise to power had been directly assisted by the militaries of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the [[Spanish Civil War]].{{sfn|Payne|Palacios|2014|p=194}}{{sfn|Alpert|2019|p=174}} The first years were characterized by a repression against the anti-fascist ideologies, deep censorship and the suppression of democratic institutions (elected Parliament, [[Spanish Constitution of 1931]], Regional Statutes of Autonomy).{{sfnp|Valencia-García|2018|pp=65–66, 70–71}}{{sfnp|Gallo|1974|pp=17–18}} After World War II and a period of international isolation, Franco's regime normalized relations with the Western powers during the Cold War, until Franco's death in 1975 and the transformation of Spain into a liberal democracy.{{sfnp|Payne|1973|p=632}}

Historian Robert Paxton observes that one of the main problems in defining fascism is that it was widely mimicked. Paxton says: "In fascism's heyday, in the 1930s, many regimes that were not functionally fascist borrowed elements of fascist decor in order to lend themselves an aura of force, vitality, and mass mobilization." He goes on to observe that [[António de Oliveira Salazar|Salazar]] "crushed Portuguese fascism after he had copied some of its techniques of popular mobilization."{{sfnp|Paxton|1998|pp=3, 17}} Paxton says: "Where Franco subjected Spain's fascist party to his personal control, Salazar abolished outright in July 1934 the nearest thing Portugal had to an authentic fascist movement, Rolão Preto's blue-shirted National Syndicalists. ... Salazar preferred to control his population through such 'organic' institutions traditionally powerful in Portugal as the Church. Salazar's regime was not only non-fascist, but 'voluntarily non-totalitarian,' preferring to let those of its citizens who kept out of politics 'live by habit.{{'"}}{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|p=150}} However, historians tend to view the [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]] as [[para-fascist]] in nature,{{sfnp|Davies|Lynch|2002|p=[https://archive.org/details/routledgecompani00davi/page/237 237]}} possessing minimal fascist tendencies.{{sfnp|Passmore|2002|p=76}} Other historians, including [[Fernando Rosas]] and Manuel Villaverde Cabral, think that the Estado Novo should be considered fascist.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 April 2024 |title=Inauguração do Museu de Peniche é um gesto antifascista atual contra a extrema-direita |trans-title=The opening of the Peniche Museum is a current anti-fascist gesture against the far right |url=https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/inauguracao-do-museu-de-peniche-e-um-gesto-antifascista-atual-contra-extrema-direita/90683 |access-date=1 August 2024 |website=Esquerda.net |language=pt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240801011112/https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/inauguracao-do-museu-de-peniche-e-um-gesto-antifascista-atual-contra-extrema-direita/90683 |archive-date=1 August 2024}}</ref>

[[File:Giorgio Almirante crop.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Giorgio Almirante]], leader of the [[Italian Social Movement]] from 1969 to 1987{{sfnp|Ignazi|2003|pp=36, 42}}]]

The term neo-fascism refers to fascist movements that generally originated after World War II. According to [[Jean-Yves Camus]] and [[Nicolas Lebourg]], the neo-fascist ideology emerged in 1942, after [[Nazi Germany]] [[Operation Barbarossa|invaded the USSR]] and decided to reorient its [[Propaganda in World War II|propaganda]] on a Europeanist ground.{{sfnp|Camus|Lebourg|2017|pp=9–10, 38}} In Italy, the [[Italian Social Movement]] led by [[Giorgio Almirante]] was a major neo-fascist movement that transformed itself into a self-described "post-fascist" movement called the [[National Alliance (Italy)|National Alliance]] (AN),{{sfnp|Ignazi|2003|p=51}} which has been an ally of [[Silvio Berlusconi]]'s [[Forza Italia (1994)|Forza Italia]] for a decade.{{sfnp|Giuffrida|2023}} In 2008, AN joined Forza Italia in Berlusconi's new party [[The People of Freedom]], but in 2012 a group of politicians split from The People of Freedom, refounding the party with the name [[Brothers of Italy]].{{sfnp|Slomp|2011|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=V1uzkNq8xfIC&pg=PA4073625 407]}}{{sfnp|Cecchi de Rossi|2012}} In Germany, various neo-Nazi movements have been formed and banned in accordance with Germany's constitutional law which forbids Nazism. The [[National Democratic Party of Germany]] (NPD) is widely considered a neo-Nazi party, although the party does not publicly identify itself as such.{{sfnp|Schori Liang|2013|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=7I_pDb1O2EQC&pg=PA139 139]}}

In Argentina, [[Peronism]], associated with the regime of [[Juan Perón]] from 1946 to 1955 and 1973 to 1974, was influenced by fascism.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=512}}{{sfnp|Finchelstein|2010|p=98}} Between 1939 and 1941, prior to his rise to power, Perón had developed a deep admiration of Italian Fascism and modelled his economic policies on Italian fascist policies.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=512}} However, not all historians agree with this identification,{{sfnp|Page|2014|p=10 and ss}} which they consider debatable<ref>{{citation |last=Romero |first=Ricardo |date=2015 |title=Perón, Reformismo y nazi fascismo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial |language=es |trans-title=Perón, Reformism and Nazi fascism during the Second War World |publisher=Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Colegio nacional de Buenos Aires, UBA |url=https://iih.cnba.uba.ar/biblioteca_virtual_edith_lopez_del_carril/coleccion_propuestas/0602/7-14-2/Per%F3n,%20reformismo%20y%20nazifascismo.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407015709/http://iih.cnba.uba.ar/biblioteca_virtual_edith_lopez_del_carril/coleccion_propuestas/0602/7-14-2/Per%F3n,%20reformismo%20y%20nazifascismo.htm |archive-date=7 April 2016 |page=14 |quote=Although it is incorrect to define Peronism as Nazism, and it is debatable to conceptualize it as fascism, the truth is that in the University the Catholic sectors that received the support of the General did much to make the students consider as fascist to Perón.}}</ref> or even false,{{sfnp|Galasso|2003|pp=2–3}} biased by a pejorative political position.{{sfnp|Cucchetti|2012|pp=151–152}} Other authors, such as the historian [[Raanan Rein]], categorically maintain that Perón was not a fascist and that this characterization was imposed on him because of his defiant stance against US hegemony.{{sfnp|Rein|2015|pp=127–128}}

===Contemporary fascism (2008–present)===

====Greece====
{{Main|Golden Dawn (Greece)|l1 = Golden Dawn}}

[[File:Golden Dawn demonstration 1.jpg|thumb|Golden Dawn demonstration in Greece in 2012]]

After the onset of the [[Great Recession]] and economic crisis in Greece, a movement known as the [[Golden Dawn (Greece)|Golden Dawn]], widely considered a neo-Nazi party,{{sfnp|Porat|Stauber|2002|p=123}} soared in support out of obscurity and won seats in [[Greek parliament|Greece's parliament]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9250142/Greece-elections-Ultra-nationalists-Golden-Dawn-celebrate-parliamentary-first.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508020901/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9250142/Greece-elections-Ultra-nationalists-Golden-Dawn-celebrate-parliamentary-first.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 May 2012 |title=Video: Greece elections: Ultra-nationalists Golden Dawn celebrate parliamentary first |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=7 May 2012 |access-date=7 May 2012 |location=London}}</ref> espousing a staunch hostility towards minorities, illegal immigrants and refugees.{{sfnp|Wodak|2020|p=279}} In 2013, after the murder of an anti-fascist musician by a person with links to Golden Dawn, the Greek government ordered the arrest of Golden Dawn's leader [[Nikolaos Michaloliakos]] and other members on charges related to being associated with a criminal organization.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24314319 |title=Greece's Golden Dawn leader Michaloliakos held in crackdown |work=[[BBC News]] |date=28 September 2013 |access-date=28 September 2013 |archive-date=28 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928063556/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24314319 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfnp|Michael|2013}} On 7 October 2020, Athens Appeals Court announced verdicts for 68 defendants, including the party's political leadership. Nikolaos Michaloliakos and six other prominent members and former members of parliament (MPs) were found guilty of running a criminal organization.{{sfnp|Samaras|2020}} Guilty verdicts were delivered on charges of murder, attempted murder, and violent attacks on immigrants and left-wing political opponents.<ref>{{cite news |title=Greece Golden Dawn: Neo-Nazi leaders guilty of running crime gang |work=[[BBC News]] |date=7 October 2020 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54433396 |access-date=7 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010211224/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54433396 |archive-date=10 October 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>

====Post-Soviet Russia====
{{Main|Ruscism|Putinism}}

[[Marlene Laruelle]], a French political scientist, contends in ''Is Russia Fascist?'' that the accusation of "fascist" has evolved into a strategic narrative of the existing world order.{{sfnp|Laruelle|2021|pp=161–162}} Geopolitical rivals might construct their own view of the world and assert the moral high ground by branding ideological rivals as fascists, regardless of their real ideals or deeds.{{sfnp|Laruelle|2021|p=20}} Laruelle discusses the basis, significance, and veracity of accusations of fascism in and around Russia through an analysis of the domestic situation in Russia and the Kremlin's foreign policy justifications; she concludes that Russian efforts to brand its opponents as fascist is ultimately an attempt to determine the future of Russia in Europe as an antifascist force, influenced by its role in fighting fascism in World War II.{{sfnp|Laruelle|2021|p=43}}

According to [[Alexander J. Motyl]], an American historian and political scientist, Russian fascism has the following characteristics:{{sfnp|Motyl|2016|pp=33–34}}{{sfnp|Motyl|2022}}
* An [[Dictatorship|undemocratic political system]], different from both traditional authoritarianism and totalitarianism;
* [[Statism]] and [[hypernationalism]];
* A hypermasculine [[Cult of personality|cult of the supreme leader]] (emphasis on his courage, militancy and physical prowess);
* General popular support for the regime and its leader.{{sfnp|Wilson Center|2008}}

[[File:Anti-War protest, Odessa 02.jpg|thumb|upright|Protester against the Russian government, holding an image portraying [[Dmitry Medvedev]] and [[Vladimir Putin]] as Nazis with a [[swastika]] made of colours of the [[Ribbon of Saint George]] and a [[Coat of arms of Russia|Russian coat of arms]] in the centre ([[Odesa]], 2014)]]

Yale historian [[Timothy Snyder]] has stated, "Putin's regime is ... the world center of fascism" and has written an article entitled ''"We Should Say It: Russia Is Fascist."''{{sfnp|Laruelle|2022|p=149}} Oxford historian Roger Griffin compared Putin's Russia to the World War II-era [[Empire of Japan]], saying that like Putin's Russia, it "emulated fascism in many ways, but was not fascist."{{sfnp|Coalson|2022}} Historian Stanley G. Payne says Putin's Russia "is not equivalent to the fascist regimes of World War II, but it forms the nearest analogue to fascism found in a major country since that time" and argues that Putin's political system is "more a revival of the creed of Tsar [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] in the 19th century that emphasized 'Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality' than one resembling the revolutionary, modernizing regimes of Hitler and Mussolini."{{sfnp|Coalson|2022}} According to Griffin, fascism is "a revolutionary form of nationalism" seeking to destroy the old system and remake society, and that Putin is a reactionary politician who is not trying to create a new order "but to recreate a modified version of the Soviet Union". German political scientist [[Andreas Umland]] said genuine fascists in Russia, like deceased politician [[Vladimir Zhirinovsky]] and activist and self-styled philosopher [[Aleksandr Dugin]], "describe in their writings a completely new Russia" controlling parts of the world that were never under tsarist or Soviet domination.{{sfnp|Coalson|2022}} According to Marlene Laurelle writing in ''[[The Washington Quarterly]]'', "applying the "fascism" label ... to the entirety of the Russian state or society short-circuits our ability to construct a more complex and differentiated picture."{{sfnp|Laruelle|2022|p=150}}

[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]], collecting the opinions of experts on fascism, said that while Russia is repressive and authoritarian, it cannot be classified as a fascist state for various reasons, including Russia's government being more reactionary than revolutionary.{{sfnp|Coalson|2022}} In 2023, [[Oleg Orlov]], the chairman of the Board of Human Rights Center "[[Memorial (society)|Memorial]]", claimed that [[Russia under Vladimir Putin]] had descended into fascism and that the army is [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|committing]] "mass murder".{{sfnp|Papachristou|2024}}{{sfnp|Ebel|2024}} On 7 March 2024, in his [[2024 State of the Union Address]], American President [[Joe Biden]] compared Russia under Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler's [[German-occupied Europe|conquests of Europe]].{{sfnp|New Voice of Ukraine|2024}}

====United States====
{{Main|Fascism in the United States}}

{{See also|Alt-right|Donald Trump and fascism|Radical right (United States)}}
While initially composed of distinctive movements, in the 21st century, many U.S. Neo-Nazi groups have moved towards more decentralized organization and online social networks with a terroristic focus.{{sfnp|Southern Poverty Law Center|2021}} After the election of [[Donald Trump]], fascist groups began coalescing around his right-wing populism to take advantage of it.{{sfnp|Berger|2025|pp=177–179}} In 2017, the [[Unite the Right rally]]{{sfnp|Berger|2025|p=186}} saw marchers come together from a variety of far-right groups and movements, including members of the [[alt-right]],{{sfnp|Stapley|2017}} [[neo-Confederates]],{{sfnp|Weill|2018}} neo-fascists,{{sfnp|Gunter|2017}} [[white nationalists]],{{sfnp|Kelkar|2017}} neo-Nazis,{{sfnp|Wootson|2017}} Klansmen,{{sfnp|Park|2017}} and [[Far-right politics|far-right]] [[Militia organizations in the United States|militias]].{{sfnp|Early|2018}} Around this period, a number of prominent fascist groups were also founded, including the [[Proud boys]] and [[Patriot Front]].{{sfnp|Berger|2025|p=190}}{{sfnp|Cruz|Sawyer|2021|pp=247–249}}

==Tenets==
Robert Paxton finds that even though fascism "maintained the existing regime of property and social hierarchy", it cannot be considered "simply a more muscular form of conservatism" because "fascism in power did carry out some changes profound enough to be called 'revolutionary.{{'"}}{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|p=11}} These transformations "often set fascists into conflict with conservatives rooted in families, churches, social rank, and property." Paxton argues:

<blockquote>fascism redrew the frontiers between private and public, sharply diminishing what had once been untouchably private. It changed the practice of citizenship from the enjoyment of constitutional rights and duties to participation in mass ceremonies of affirmation and conformity. It reconfigured relations between the individual and the collectivity, so that an individual had no rights outside community interest. It expanded the powers of the executive—party and state—in a bid for total control. Finally, it unleashed aggressive emotions hitherto known in Europe only during war or social revolution.{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|p=11}}</blockquote>

===Ultranationalism===
{{Nationalism sidebar|Types}}

Ultranationalism, combined with the myth of national rebirth, is a key foundation of fascism.<ref>{{harvp|Griffin|2006b|pp=451–453}}; {{harvp|Ross|2017|p=5}}; {{harvp|Griffin|2008|loc=Chapter 8: Fascism's New Faces (and New Facelessness) in the 'Post-Fascist' Epoch}}; {{harvp|Davies|Lynch|2002|p=96}}</ref> Robert Paxton argues that "a passionate nationalism" is the basis of fascism, combined with "a conspiratorial and [[Manichean]] view of history" which holds, "the chosen people have been weakened by political parties, social classes, unassimilable minorities, spoiled rentiers, and rationalist thinkers."{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|p=41}} Roger Griffin identifies the core of fascism as being palingenetic ultranationalism.{{sfnp|Griffin|1991|p=26}}

The fascist view of a nation is of a single organic entity that binds people together by their ancestry and is a natural unifying force of people.{{sfnp|Zimmer|2003|pp=80–107|loc=ch. 4}} Fascism seeks to solve economic, political, and social problems by achieving a [[Millenarianism|millenarian]] national rebirth, exalting the nation or [[race (biology)|race]] above all else and promoting cults of unity, strength, and purity.{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|pp=218–219}}{{sfnp|Laqueur|1997|p=223}}{{sfnp|Encyclopedia Britannica ''Fascism''}} European fascist movements typically espouse a racist conception of non-Europeans being inferior to Europeans.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=11}} Beyond this, European fascists have not held a unified set of racial views.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=11}} Historically, most fascists promoted imperialism, although there have been several fascist movements that were uninterested in the pursuit of new imperial ambitions.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=11}} For example, Nazism and Italian Fascism were [[expansionist]] and [[irredentist]].{{sfnp|Kallis|2000|p=41}}{{sfnp|Giaccaria|Minca|2016|p=37}} Falangism in Spain envisioned the worldwide unification of Spanish-speaking peoples ({{lang|es|[[Hispanidad]]}}).{{sfnp|Larsen|2001|pp=120–121}} [[British Fascism]] was [[non-interventionist]], though it did embrace the British Empire.{{sfnp|Benewick|1972|p=134}}

===Totalitarianism===
Fascism promotes the establishment of a totalitarian state.{{sfnp|Griffin|2013|pp=1–6}}<!-- Page numbers may be for 2005 edition --> It opposes liberal democracy, rejects multi-party systems, and may support a [[one-party state]] so that it may synthesize with the nation.{{sfnp|Mussolini|2002|p=40}} Mussolini's ''The Doctrine of Fascism'' (1932), partly [[ghostwriter|ghostwritten]] by philosopher Giovanni Gentile,{{sfnp|Lyttelton|1973|p=13|ps=: "The first half of the article was the work of Giovanni Gentile; only the second half was Mussolini's own work, though the whole article appeared under his name."}} who Mussolini described as "the philosopher of Fascism", states: "The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State—a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values—interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people."{{sfnp|Mussolini|1935|p=14}} In ''[[The Concept of the Political]]'', Nazi political theorist [[Carl Schmitt]] argued against liberal and parliamentarian democracy as being obstacles to the execution of state power.{{sfnp|Schweller|2006|p=122}} In ''The Legal Basis of the Total State'', Schmitt further described the Nazi intention to form a "strong state which guarantees a totality of political unity transcending all diversity" in order to avoid a "disastrous pluralism tearing the German people apart."{{sfnp|Schmitt|1995|p=72}}

Fascist states pursued policies of social [[indoctrination]] through [[propaganda]] in education and the media, and regulation of the production of educational and media materials.{{sfnmp|Pauley|2003|1p=117|Payne|1995|2p=220}} Education was designed to glorify the fascist movement and inform students of its historical and political importance to the nation. It attempted to purge ideas that were not consistent with the beliefs of the fascist movement and to teach students to be obedient to the state.{{sfnp|Pauley|2003|pp=117–119}}

===Economy===
{{Main|Economics of fascism}}

Historians and other scholars disagree on the question of whether a specifically [[fascist]] type of [[economic policy]] can be said to exist. David Baker argues that there is an identifiable economic system in fascism that is distinct from those advocated by other ideologies, comprising essential characteristics that fascist nations shared.{{sfnp|Baker|2006|p=229–230}} Payne, Paxton, Sternhell ''et al.'' argue that while fascist economies share some similarities, there is no distinctive form of fascist economic organization.{{sfnp|Sternhell|Sznajder|Ashéri|1994|pp=227–228}}{{sfnp|Payne|1995|p=10}}{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|p=145}} [[Gerald Feldman]] and [[Timothy Mason (historian)|Timothy Mason]] argue that fascism is distinguished by an absence of coherent economic ideology and a lack of serious economic thinking. They state that the decisions taken by fascist leaders cannot be explained within a logical economic framework.{{sfnp|Woodley|2010|p=161}}

Fascists presented their views as an alternative to both international socialism and free-market economics.{{sfnp|Bastow|Martin|2003|p=36}} While fascism opposed mainstream socialism, fascists sometimes regarded their movement as a type of nationalist "socialism" to highlight their commitment to [[nationalism]], describing it as national [[solidarity]] and unity.{{sfnp|Bar On|2020|p=}}{{pn|date=November 2025}}{{sfnp|Blamires|2006b|p=610}} Fascism had a complex relationship with [[capitalism]], both supporting and opposing different aspects of it at different times and in different countries. In general, fascists held an instrumental view of capitalism, regarding it as a tool that may be useful or not, depending on circumstances.{{sfnp|Laqueur|1978|p=357}}{{sfnp|Overy|1994|p=1}} Fascist governments typically established close connections between big business and the state, and business was expected to serve the interests of the government.{{sfnp|Laqueur|1978|p=357}}{{sfnp|Overy|1994|p=1}} Economic self-sufficiency, known as autarky, was a major goal of most fascist governments.{{sfnp|De Grand|1995|pp=60–61}}

Fascist governments advocated for the resolution of domestic [[class conflict]] within a nation in order to guarantee national unity.{{sfnp|Griffin|1991|pp=222–223}} This would be done through the state's mediating relations between the classes (contrary to the views of [[Classical liberalism|classical liberal]]–inspired capitalists).{{sfnp|Hoover|1935|pp=13–20}} While fascism was opposed to domestic class conflict, it held that [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]]–[[Proletariat|proletarian]] conflict existed primarily in international conflict between proletarian nations and bourgeois nations.{{sfnp|Neocleous|1997|pp=21–22}} Fascism condemned what it viewed as widespread character traits that it associated with the typical bourgeois mentality that it opposed, such as materialism, crassness, cowardice, and the inability to comprehend the heroic ideal of the fascist "warrior"; and associations with liberalism, individualism, and [[Parliamentary system|parliamentarianism]].{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=102}} From 1914, Enrico Corradini developed the idea of "proletarian nations", defining proletarian as being one and the same with producers, a [[Productivism|productivist]] perspective that associated all people deemed productive, including entrepreneurs, technicians, workers and soldiers as being proletarian.{{sfnp|Corner|2012|p=16}}{{sfnp|Gregor|1974|p=374–377}}{{sfnp|Lim|2012|p=71}} Mussolini adopted this view in his description of the proletarian character.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

[[File:VW Typ 83 vr.jpg|thumb|The need for a ''people's car'' ({{lang|de|[[Volkswagen]]}} in German), its concept and its functional objectives were formulated by [[Adolf Hitler]].{{sfnp|Nelson|1967|p=333}}]]

Because productivism was key to creating a strong nationalist state, it criticized internationalist and Marxist socialism, advocating instead to represent a type of nationalist productivist socialism.{{sfnp|Kedar|2010|pp=7–9}} Nevertheless, while condemning parasitical capitalism, it was willing to accommodate productivist capitalism within it so long as it supported the nationalist objective.{{sfnp|Spektorowski|Ireni-Saban|2013|p=33}} The role of productivism was derived from [[Henri de Saint Simon]], whose ideas inspired the creation of [[utopian socialism]] and influenced other ideologies that stressed solidarity rather than class war and whose conception of productive people in the economy included both productive workers and productive bosses to challenge the influence of the aristocracy and unproductive financial speculators.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006b|p=535}} Saint Simon's vision combined the traditionalist right-wing criticisms of the French Revolution with a left-wing belief in the need for association or collaboration of productive people in society.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006b|p=535}} Whereas Marxism condemned capitalism as a system of exploitative property relations, fascism saw the nature of the control of credit and money in the contemporary capitalist system as abusive.{{sfnp|Spektorowski|Ireni-Saban|2013|p=33}}

Unlike Marxism, fascism did not see class conflict between the Marxist-defined proletariat and the bourgeoisie as a given or as an engine of historical materialism.{{sfnp|Spektorowski|Ireni-Saban|2013|p=33}} Instead, it viewed workers and productive capitalists in common as productive people who were in conflict with parasitic elements in society, including corrupt political parties, corrupt financial capital, and feeble people.{{sfnp|Spektorowski|Ireni-Saban|2013|p=33}} Fascist leaders such as Mussolini and Hitler spoke of the need to create a new managerial elite led by engineers and captains of industry—but free from the parasitic leadership of industries.{{sfnp|Spektorowski|Ireni-Saban|2013|p=33}} Hitler stated that the Nazi Party supported {{lang|de|bodenständigen Kapitalismus}} ("productive capitalism") that was based upon profit earned from one's own labour, but condemned unproductive capitalism or loan capitalism, which derived profit from speculation.{{sfnp|Friedman|2011|p=24}}

Fascist economics supported a state-controlled economy that accepted a mix of [[private ownership|private]] and [[public ownership]] over the [[means of production]].{{sfnp|Millward|2007|p=178}} [[Economic planning]] was applied to both the public and private sectors, and the prosperity of private enterprise depended on its acceptance of synchronizing itself with the economic goals of the state.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=189}} Fascist economic ideology supported the [[profit motive]] but emphasized that industries must uphold the national interest as superior to private profit.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=189}}

While fascism accepted the importance of material wealth and power, it condemned materialism, which was identified as being present in both communism and capitalism, and criticized materialism for lacking acknowledgment of the role of the spirit.{{sfnp|Davies|Lynch|2002|p=103}} In particular, fascists criticized capitalism, not because of its competitive nature nor support of private property, which fascists supported—but due to its materialism, individualism, alleged bourgeois decadence and alleged indifference to the nation.{{sfnp|Paxton|2005|p=10}} Fascism denounced Marxism for its advocacy of materialist internationalist class identity, which fascists regarded as an attack upon the emotional and spiritual bonds of the nation and a threat to the achievement of genuine national solidarity.{{sfnp|Breuilly|1994|p=290}}

In discussing the spread of fascism beyond Italy, historian Philip Morgan states: <blockquote>Since the Depression was a crisis of laissez-faire capitalism and its political counterpart, parliamentary democracy, fascism could pose as the 'third-way' alternative between capitalism and Bolshevism, the model of a new European 'civilization.' As Mussolini typically put it in early 1934, 'from 1929 ... fascism has become a universal phenomenon ... The dominant forces of the 19th century, democracy, socialism, [and] liberalism have been exhausted ... the new political and economic forms of the twentieth-century are fascist'.{{sfnp|Morgan|2003|p=32}}</blockquote>

Fascists criticized egalitarianism as preserving the weak and instead promoted social Darwinist views and policies.{{sfnp|Griffin|Feldman|2004|p=353|ps=: "When the Russian revolution occurred in 1917 and the 'Democratic' revolution spread after the First World War, anti-[[bolshevism]] and anti-egalitarianism rose as very strong "restoration movements" on the European scene. However, by the turn of that century no one could predict that fascism would become such a concrete, political reaction ... ."}}{{sfnp|Hawkins|1997|p=285|ps=: "Conflict is in fact the basic law of life in all social organisms, as it is of all biological ones; societies are formed, gain strength, and move forwards through conflict; the healthiest and most vital of them assert themselves against the weakest and less well adapted through conflict; the natural evolution of nations and races takes place through conflict." Alfredo Rocco, Italian Fascist.}} They were in principle opposed to the idea of [[social welfare]], arguing that it "encouraged the preservation of the degenerate and the feeble."{{sfnp|Evans|2005|pp=483–484}} The Nazi Party condemned the welfare system of the Weimar Republic, as well as private charity and philanthropy, for supporting people whom they regarded as racially inferior and weak and who should have been weeded out in the process of natural selection.{{sfnp|Evans|2005|p=484}} Nevertheless, faced with the mass unemployment and poverty of the Great Depression, the Nazis found it necessary to set up charitable institutions to help racially pure Germans in order to maintain popular support while arguing that this represented "racial self-help" and not indiscriminate charity or universal social welfare.{{sfnp|Evans|2005|pp=484–485}} Thus, Nazi programs such as the [[Winterhilfswerk|Winter Relief of the German People]] and the broader [[Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt|National Socialist People's Welfare]] (NSV) were organized as quasi-private institutions, officially relying on private donations from Germans to help others of their race—although in practice those who refused to donate could face severe consequences.{{sfnp|Evans|2005|pp=486–487}} Unlike the social welfare institutions of the Weimar Republic and the Christian charities, the NSV distributed assistance on explicitly racial grounds.{{sfnp|Evans|2005|pp=486–487}} It provided support only to those who were "racially sound, capable of and willing to work, politically reliable, and willing and able to reproduce." Non-Aryans were excluded, as well as the "work-shy", "asocials" and the "hereditarily ill".{{sfnp|Evans|2005|p=489}} Under these conditions, by 1939, over 17 million Germans had obtained assistance from the NSV, and the agency "projected a powerful image of caring and support" for "those who were judged to have got into difficulties through no fault of their own."{{sfnp|Evans|2005|p=489}} Yet the organization was "feared and disliked among society's poorest" because it resorted to intrusive questioning and monitoring to judge who was worthy of support.{{sfnp|Evans|2005|pp=489–490}}

===Direct action===
Fascism emphasizes [[direct action]], including supporting the legitimacy of political violence, as a core part of its politics.{{sfnmp|Payne|1995|1p=106|Breuilly|1994|2p=294}} Fascism views violent action as a necessity in politics that fascism identifies as being an "endless struggle";{{sfnp|Woodley|2010|p=106}} this emphasis on the use of political violence means that most fascist parties have also created their own private [[militias]] (e.g. the Nazi Party's [[Brown shirts]] and Fascist Italy's [[Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale|Blackshirts]]).{{sfnp|Jackson|2023|p=334}} The basis of fascism's support of violent action in politics is connected to social Darwinism.{{sfnp|Woodley|2010|p=106}} Fascist movements have commonly held social Darwinist views of nations, races, and societies.{{sfnp|Payne|1995|pp=485–486}} They say that nations and races must purge themselves of socially and biologically weak or [[Social degeneration|degenerate]] people while simultaneously promoting the creation of strong people in order to survive in a world defined by perpetual national and racial conflict.{{sfnp|Griffin|1995|p=59}}

===Age and gender roles===
[[File:Piccole Italiane.jpg|thumb|Members of the {{lang|it|[[Piccole Italiane]]}}, an organization for girls within the National Fascist Party in Italy]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-04517A, Potsdam, Mädchen in der Führerinnenschule.jpg|thumb|Members of the [[League of German Girls]], an organization for girls within the Nazi Party in Germany]]
Fascism emphasizes [[youth]] both in a physical sense of age and a spiritual sense as related to virility and commitment to action.{{sfnp|Antliff|2007|p=171}} The Italian Fascists' political anthem was called ''[[Giovinezza]]'' ("The Youth").{{sfnp|Antliff|2007|p=171}} Fascism identifies the physical age period of youth as a critical time for the moral development of people who will affect society.{{sfnp|Quine|1996|p=47}} Walter Laqueur argues "[t]he corollaries of the cult of war and physical danger were the cult of brutality, strength, and sexuality ... [fascism is] a true counter-civilization: rejecting the sophisticated rationalist humanism of Old Europe, fascism sets up as its ideal the primitive instincts and primal emotions of the barbarian."{{sfnp|Laqueur|1978|p=341}}

Italian fascism pursued what it called "moral hygiene" of youth, particularly regarding [[Human sexuality|sexuality]].{{sfnp|Quine|1996|pp=46–47}} Fascist Italy promoted what it considered normal sexual behaviour in youth while denouncing what it considered deviant sexual behaviour.{{sfnp|Quine|1996|pp=46–47}} It condemned [[pornography]], most forms of [[birth control]] and contraceptive devices (with the exception of the [[condom]]), [[homosexuality]] and [[prostitution]] as deviant sexual behaviour. However, enforcement of laws opposed to such practices was erratic, and authorities often looked the other way.{{sfnp|Quine|1996|pp=46–47}} Fascist Italy regarded the promotion of male sexual excitation before [[puberty]] as the cause of criminality amongst male youth, declared homosexuality a social disease and pursued an aggressive campaign to reduce prostitution of young women.{{sfnp|Quine|1996|pp=46–47}}

Mussolini perceived women's primary role as primarily child bearers, while that of men as warriors, once saying: "War is to man what maternity is to the woman."{{sfnp|Bollas|1993|p=205}} In an effort to increase birth rates, the Italian Fascist government gave financial incentives to women who raised large families and initiated policies intended to reduce the number of women employed.{{sfnp|McDonald|1999|p=27}} Italian Fascism called for women to be honoured as "reproducers of the nation", and the Italian Fascist government held ritual ceremonies to celebrate women's role within the Italian nation.{{sfnp|Mann|2004|p=101}} In 1934, Mussolini declared that employment of women was a "major aspect of the thorny problem of unemployment" and that for women, working was "incompatible with childbearing"; Mussolini went on to say that the solution to unemployment for men was the "exodus of women from the work force."{{sfnp|Durham|1998|p=15}}

The German Nazi government strongly encouraged women to stay at home to bear children and keep house.{{sfnp|Evans|2005|pp=331–332}} This policy was reinforced by bestowing the [[Cross of Honor of the German Mother]] on women bearing four or more children. The unemployment rate was cut substantially, mostly through arms production and sending women home so that men could take their jobs. Nazi propaganda sometimes promoted premarital and extramarital sexual relations, unwed motherhood and divorce, but at other times the Nazis opposed such behaviour.{{sfnp|Heineman|2002|pp=29–31, 46–49}}

The Nazis decriminalized abortion in cases where fetuses had hereditary defects or were of a race the government disapproved of, while the abortion of healthy pure German, [[Aryan race|Aryan]] fetuses remained strictly forbidden.{{sfnp|Friedlander|1995|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=gqLDEKVk2nMC 30]}} For non-Aryans, abortion was often compulsory. Their [[eugenics]] program also stemmed from the "progressive biomedical model" of [[Weimar Germany]].{{sfnp|McLaren|1999|p=139}} In 1935, Nazi Germany expanded the legality of [[history of abortion|abortion]] by amending [[Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring|its eugenics law]] to promote abortion for women with hereditary disorders.{{sfnp|Friedlander|1995|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=gqLDEKVk2nMC 30]}} The law allowed abortion if a woman gave her permission and the fetus was not yet viable{{sfnp|Proctor|1989|p=366|ps=: "This emendation allowed abortion only if the woman granted permission, and only if the fetus was not old enough to survive outside the womb. It is unclear if either of these qualifications was enforced."}}{{sfnp|Arnot|Usborne|1999|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=q1BFiRa3KHkC 241]}} and for purposes of so-called [[racial hygiene]].{{sfnp|Proctor|1989|pp=122–123|ps=: "Abortion, in other words, could be allowed if it was in the interest of racial hygiene. ... the Nazis did allow (and in some cases even required) abortions for women deemed racially inferior. ... On 10 November 1938, a Luneberg court declared abortion legal for Jews."}}{{sfnp|Tierney|1999|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=gQLqRd7hJq0C 589]|ps=: "In 1939, it was announced that Jewish women could seek abortions, but non-Jewish women could not."}}

The Nazis said that homosexuality was degenerate, effeminate, perverted, and undermined masculinity because it did not produce children.{{sfnp|Evans|2005|p=529}} They considered homosexuality curable through therapy, citing modern [[scientism]] and the study of [[sexology]]. Open homosexuals were interned in Nazi concentration camps.{{sfnp|Holocaust Encyclopedia ''Persecution of Homosexuals''}}

===Palingenesis and modernism===
{{Main article|Reactionary modernism}}

Fascism emphasizes both palingenesis (national rebirth or re-creation) and [[modernism]].{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=168}} In particular, fascism's nationalism has been identified as having a palingenetic character.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=451–453}} Fascism promotes the nation's regeneration and purging it of decadence.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|p=168}} Fascism accepts forms of modernism that it deems promote national regeneration while rejecting forms of modernism regarded as antithetical to national regeneration.{{sfnp|Blamires|2006|pp=168–169}} Fascism aestheticized modern technology and its association with speed, power, and violence.{{sfnp|Neocleous|1997|p=63}} Fascism admired advances in the economy in the early 20th century, particularly [[Fordism]] and [[scientific management]].{{sfnp|Neocleous|1997|p=65}} Fascist modernism has been recognized as inspired or developed by various figures—such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, [[Ernst Jünger]], [[Gottfried Benn]], [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]], [[Knut Hamsun]], [[Ezra Pound]] and [[Wyndham Lewis]].{{sfnp|Welge|2007|p=547}}

In Italy, such modernist influence was exemplified by Marinetti, who advocated a palingenetic modernist society that condemned liberal-bourgeois values of tradition and psychology while promoting a technological-martial religion of national renewal that emphasized militant nationalism.{{sfnp|Welge|2007|p=550}} In Germany, it was exemplified by Jünger who was influenced by his observation of the technological warfare during World War I and claimed that a new social class had been created that he described as the "warrior-worker";{{sfnp|Welge|2007|p=553}} Like Marinetti, Jünger emphasized the revolutionary capacities of technology. He emphasized an "organic construction" between humans and machines as a liberating and regenerative force that challenged liberal democracy, conceptions of individual autonomy, bourgeois nihilism, and decadence.{{sfnp|Welge|2007|p=553}} He conceived of a society based on a totalitarian concept of "total mobilization" of such disciplined warrior-workers.{{sfnp|Welge|2007|p=553}}

==Culture==
===Aesthetics===
[[File:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.jpg|thumb|[[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]]]]
In ''[[The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction]]'' (1935), [[Walter Benjamin]] identifies [[aestheticization of politics]] as a key ingredient in fascist regimes.{{sfnp|Jay|1992|pp=41–42}} On this point he quotes Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the [[Futurism (art)|Futurist]] art movement and co-author of the [[Fascist Manifesto]] (1919), who [[Violence in art|aestheticizes war]] in his writings and claims "war is beautiful."{{sfnp|Benjamin|2008|pp=36–37}}

In ''[[Simulacra and Simulation]]'' (1981), [[Jean Baudrillard]] interprets fascism as a "political aesthetic of death" and a vehement [[countermovement]] against the increasing rationalism, secularism, and pacifism of the modern Western world.<ref>{{harvp|Baudrillard|1994|p=48}}: "Fascism itself, the mystery of its appearance and of its collective energy, ... can already be interpreted as the 'irrational' excess of mythic and political referentials, the mad intensification of collective value (blood, race, people, etc.), the reinjection of death, of a 'political aesthetic of death' at a time when the process of the disenchantment of value and of collective values, of the rational secularization and unidimensionalization of all life, of the operationalization of all social and individual life already makes itself strongly felt in the West. Yet again, everything seems to escape this catastrophe of value, this neutralization and pacification of life. Fascism is a resistance to this, even if it is a profound, irrational, demented resistance, it would not have tapped into this massive energy if it hadn't been a resistance to something much worse. Fascism's cruelty, its terror is on the level of ''this other terror that is the confusion of the real and the rational,'' which deepened in the West, and it is a response to that."</ref>

The standard definition of fascism, given by Stanley G. Payne, focuses on three concepts, one of which is a "fascist style" with an aesthetic structure of meetings, symbols, and political liturgy, stressing emotional and mystical aspects.{{sfnp|Payne|1980|p=7}}

Emilio Gentile argues that fascism expresses itself aesthetically more than theoretically by means of a new political style with myths, rites, and symbols as a lay religion designed to acculturate, socialize, and integrate the faith of the masses with the goal of creating a "[[New Man (utopian concept)#Fascism|new man]]".{{sfnp|Payne|1995|pp=5–6}}

Cultural critic [[Susan Sontag]] writes:

{{Blockquote|Fascist aesthetics ... flow from (and justify) a preoccupation with situations of control, submissive behavior, extravagant effort, and the endurance of pain; they endorse two seemingly opposite states, egomania and servitude. The relations of domination and enslavement take the form of a characteristic pageantry: the massing of groups of people; the turning of people into things; the multiplication or replication of things; and the grouping of people/things around an all-powerful, hypnotic leader-figure or force. The fascist dramaturgy centers on the orgiastic transactions between mighty forces and their puppets, uniformly garbed and shown in ever swelling numbers. Its choreography alternates between ceaseless motion and a congealed, static, 'virile' posing. Fascist art glorifies surrender, it exalts mindlessness, it glamorizes death.{{sfnp|Sontag|1975}}}}

Sontag also enumerates some commonalities between fascist art and the official art of communist countries, such as the obeisance of the masses to the hero, and a preference for the monumental and the "grandiose and rigid" choreography of mass bodies. But whereas official communist art "aims to expound and reinforce a utopian morality", the art of fascist countries such as Nazi Germany "displays a utopian aesthetics – that of physical perfection", in a way that is "both prurient and idealizing".{{sfnp|Sontag|1975}}

According to Sontag, fascist aesthetics "is based on the containment of vital forces; movements are confined, held tight, held in." Its appeal is not necessarily limited to those who share the fascist political ideology because fascism "stands for an ideal or rather ideals that are persistent today under the other banners: the ideal of life as art, the cult of beauty, the fetishism of courage, the dissolution of alienation in ecstatic feelings of community; the repudiation of the intellect; the family of man (under the parenthood of leaders)."{{sfnp|Sontag|1975}}

===Popular culture===
{{Further|Art in Nazi Germany|Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S34639, Joseph Goebbels und Leni Riefenstahl crop.jpg|thumb|upright|Joseph Goebbels with film director [[Leni Riefenstahl]] in 1937]]
In Italy, the Mussolini regime created the {{lang|it|Direzione Generale per la Cinematografi}} to encourage film studios to glorify fascism.<ref>{{cite web |date=5 July 2018 |title=How Cinecittà's Advanced Facilities Made History in Italian Cinema |url=https://italiantribune.com/the-history-of-the-italian-cinema-12/ |work=The Italian Tribune |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251007213201/https://italiantribune.com/the-history-of-the-italian-cinema-12/ |archive-date=7 October 2025}}</ref> Italian cinema flourished because the regime stopped the import of Hollywood films in 1938, subsidized domestic production, and kept ticket prices low. It encouraged international distribution to glorify its African empire and to oppose the accusation that Italy was backward.{{sfnp|Ben-Ghiat|2015|p=60}} The regime censored criticism and used the state-run Luce Institute film company to laud the Duce through newsreels, documentaries, and photographs.{{sfnp|Sorlin|2007|pp=111–112}} The regime promoted Italian opera and theatre as well, making sure that political enemies did not have a voice on stage.{{sfnp|Berezin|1991|pp=640–641}}

In Nazi Germany the new [[Reich Chamber of Culture]] was under the control of [[Joseph Goebbels]], Hitler's powerful Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.{{sfnp|Overy|2005|p=361}} The goal was to stimulate the [[Aryanization (Nazism)|Aryanization]] of German culture and to prohibit postmodern trends such as [[surrealism]] and [[cubism]].{{sfnp|Steinweis|1996|pp=159–160}}{{sfnp|Barr|1966|pp=17–18}}

==Criticism==
Fascist parties were closely contested by [[anti-fascist]] movements from the [[political centre]] and [[left wing]] throughout the Interwar period. The defeat of the [[Axis powers]] in World War II and subsequent revelation of the [[crimes against humanity]] committed during the Holocaust by Germany have led to an almost universal condemnation of both past and present forms of fascism in the modern era. "Fascism" is today used across the political spectrum as a pejorative or byword for perceived authoritarianism and other forms of political evil.

===Anti-democratic and tyrannical===
{{See also|Criticism of democracy}}
[[File:Hitler and Franco at Hendaye (en.wiki).jpg|thumb|upright|Hitler and Spanish dictator [[Francisco Franco]] in the [[Meeting at Hendaye]], on 23 October 1940{{sfnp|Lowe|2006|p=250}}{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|p=149}}]]
One of the most common and strongest criticisms of fascism is that it is a [[tyranny]].{{sfnp|Boesche|2010|p=11}} Fascism is deliberately and entirely non-democratic and anti-democratic.{{sfnmp|1a1=Clarke|1a2=Foweraker|1y=2001|1p=540|Pollard|1998|2p=121|Griffin|1991|3p=42}}

Fascism's extreme authoritarianism and nationalism often manifest as a belief in [[racial purity]] or a [[master race]], usually blended with some variant of [[racism]] or [[discrimination]] against a demonized "[[Other (philosophy)|Other]]", such as [[Jews]], [[homosexuals]], [[transgender people]], [[ethnic minorities]], or [[immigrants]].{{sfnp|Kallis|2020|pp=4–7}}{{sfnp|Haider|2021|p=6}} These ideas have motivated fascist regimes to commit [[massacre]]s, [[forced sterilizations]], [[deportation]]s, and [[genocide]]s.{{sfnmp|1a1=Kallis|1y=2011|1p=|2a1=Paxton|2y=1998|2p=|3a1=Lancaster|3y=2011|3pp=366–368}} During World War II, the genocidal and imperialist ambitions of the fascist Axis powers resulted in the murder of millions of people.{{sfnp|Kallis|2009|pp=219–220}}{{sfnp|Finchelstein|2008|p=320}} [[Federico Finchelstein]] wrote that fascism {{blockquote|...encompassed [[totalitarianism]], [[state terrorism]], imperialism, racism and, in the German case, the most radical genocide of the last century: the Holocaust. Fascism, in its many forms, did not hesitate to kill its own citizens as well as its colonial subjects in its search for ideological and political closure. Millions of civilians perished on a global scale during the apogee of fascist ideologies in Europe and beyond.{{sfnp|Finchelstein|2008|p=320}}}}

===Unprincipled opportunism===
Some critics of Italian fascism have said that much of the ideology was merely a by-product of unprincipled [[opportunism]] by Mussolini and that he changed his political stances merely to bolster his personal ambitions while he disguised them as being purposeful to the public.{{sfnp|Schreiber|Stegemann|Vogel|1995|p=111}} [[Richard Washburn Child]], the American ambassador to Italy who worked with Mussolini and became his friend and admirer, defended Mussolini's opportunistic behaviour by writing: <blockquote>Opportunist is a term of reproach used to brand men who fit themselves to conditions for the reasons of self-interest. Mussolini, as I have learned to know him, is an opportunist in the sense that he believed that mankind itself must be fitted to changing conditions rather than to fixed theories, no matter how many hopes and prayers have been expended on theories and programmes.<ref>{{harvp|Mussolini|1998|p=ix}}. (Note: Mussolini wrote the second volume about his fall from power as head of government of the Kingdom of Italy in 1943, though he was restored to power in northern Italy by the German military.)</ref></blockquote> Child quoted Mussolini as saying: "The sanctity of an ism is not in the ism; it has no sanctity beyond its power to do, to work, to succeed in practice. It may have succeeded yesterday and fail to-morrow. Failed yesterday and succeed to-morrow. The machine, first of all, must run!"{{sfnp|Mussolini|1998|p=ix}}

Some have criticized Mussolini's actions during the outbreak of World War I as opportunistic for seeming to suddenly abandon Marxist egalitarian internationalism for non-egalitarian nationalism and note, to that effect, that upon Mussolini endorsing Italy's intervention in the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary, he and the new fascist movement received financial support from Italian and foreign sources, such as [[Italian Ansaldo company|Ansaldo]] (an armaments firm) and other companies{{sfnp|Mack Smith|1997|p=284}} as well as the British Security Service [[MI5]].{{sfnp|Kington|2009}} Some, including Mussolini's socialist opponents at the time, have noted that regardless of the financial support he accepted for his pro-interventionist stance, Mussolini was free to write whatever he wished in his newspaper {{lang|it|Il Popolo d'Italia}} without prior sanctioning from his financial backers.{{sfnp|O'Brien|2014|p=37}} Furthermore, the major source of financial support that Mussolini and the fascist movement received in World War I was from France and is widely believed to have been French socialists who supported the French government's war against Germany and who sent support to Italian socialists who wanted Italian intervention on France's side.{{sfnp|Gregor|1979|p=200}}

Mussolini’s transformation away from Marxism into what eventually became fascism began prior to World War I, as Mussolini had grown increasingly pessimistic about Marxism and egalitarianism while becoming increasingly supportive of figures who opposed egalitarianism, such as Friedrich Nietzsche.{{sfnp|Golomb|Wistrich|2002|p=249}} By 1902, Mussolini was studying Georges Sorel, Nietzsche and [[Vilfredo Pareto]].{{sfnp|Delzel|1970|p=96}} Sorel's emphasis on the need for overthrowing decadent liberal democracy and capitalism by the use of violence, direct action, general strikes and [[Machiavelli|neo-Machiavellian]] appeals to emotion impressed Mussolini deeply.{{sfnp|Delzel|1970|p=3}} Mussolini's use of Nietzsche made him a highly unorthodox socialist, due to Nietzsche's promotion of elitism and anti-egalitarian views.{{sfnp|Golomb|Wistrich|2002|p=249}} Prior to World War I, Mussolini's writings over time indicated that he had abandoned the Marxism and egalitarianism that he had previously supported in favour of Nietzsche's {{lang|de|übermensch}} concept and anti-egalitarianism.{{sfnp|Golomb|Wistrich|2002|p=249}} In 1908, Mussolini wrote a short essay called "Philosophy of Strength" based on his Nietzschean influence, in which Mussolini openly spoke fondly of the ramifications of an impending war in Europe in challenging both religion and [[nihilism]]: "[A] new kind of free spirit will come, strengthened by the war, ... a spirit equipped with a kind of sublime perversity, ... a new free spirit will triumph over God and over Nothing."{{sfnp|Gori|2004|p=14}}

===Ideological dishonesty===
Fascism has been criticized for being ideologically dishonest. Major examples of ideological dishonesty have been identified in Italian fascism's changing relationship with German Nazism.{{sfnmp|Gillette|2001|1p=17|Pollard|1998|2p=129}} Fascist Italy's official foreign policy positions commonly used rhetorical ideological [[hyperbole]] to justify its actions, although during [[Dino Grandi]]'s tenure as Italy's foreign minister the country engaged in {{lang|de|[[realpolitik]]}} free of such fascist hyperbole.{{sfnp|Burgwyn|1997|p=58}} Italian fascism's stance towards German Nazism fluctuated from support from the late 1920s to 1934, when it celebrated Hitler's rise to power and Mussolini's first meeting with Hitler in 1934; to opposition from 1934 to 1936 after the assassination of Italy's allied leader in Austria, [[Engelbert Dollfuss]], by Austrian Nazis; and again back to support after 1936, when Germany was the only significant power that did not denounce [[Italy's invasion and occupation of Ethiopia]].{{sfnp|Strang|2000|p=74}}

After antagonism exploded between Nazi Germany and [[Kingdom of Italy|Fascist Italy]] over the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss in 1934, Mussolini and Italian fascists denounced and ridiculed Nazism's racial theories, particularly by denouncing its [[Nordic race|Nordicism]], while promoting [[Mediterraneanism]].{{sfnp|Pollard|1998|p=129}} Mussolini himself responded to Nordicists' claims of Italy being divided into Nordic and Mediterranean racial areas due to Germanic invasions of Northern Italy by claiming that while Germanic tribes such as the [[Lombards]] took control of Italy after the [[fall of Ancient Rome]], they arrived in small numbers (about 8,000) and quickly assimilated into Roman culture and spoke the [[Vulgar Latin|Latin]] language within fifty years.{{sfnp|Gillette|2001|p=93}} Italian fascism was influenced by the tradition of [[Italian nationalists]] scornfully looking down upon Nordicists' claims and taking pride in comparing the age and sophistication of [[ancient Roman civilization]] as well as the classical revival in the [[Renaissance]] to that of Nordic societies that Italian nationalists described as "newcomers" to civilization in comparison.{{sfnp|Gillette|2001|p=17}} At the height of antagonism between the Nazis and Italian fascists over race, Mussolini claimed that the Germans themselves were not a pure race and noted with irony that the Nazi theory of German racial superiority was based on the theories of non-German foreigners, such as Frenchman Arthur de Gobineau.{{sfnp|Gillette|2001|p=45}} After the tension in [[German-Italian relations]] diminished during the late 1930s, Italian fascism sought to harmonize its ideology with German Nazism and combined Nordicist and Mediterranean racial theories, noting that Italians were members of the Aryan Race, composed of a mixed Nordic-Mediterranean subtype.{{sfnp|Pollard|1998|p=129}}

In 1938, Mussolini declared upon Italy's adoption of antisemitic laws that Italian fascism had always been antisemitic.{{sfnp|Pollard|1998|p=129}} However, Italian fascism did not endorse [[antisemitism]] until the late 1930s when Mussolini feared alienating antisemitic Nazi Germany, whose power and influence were growing in Europe.{{sfnp|Zimmerman|2005|pp=62, 160}} Prior to that period, there had been notable [[Jewish Italians]] who had been senior Italian fascist officials, including [[Margherita Sarfatti]], who had also been Mussolini's mistress.{{sfnp|Pollard|1998|p=129}} Also contrary to Mussolini's claim in 1938, only a small number of Italian fascists were staunchly antisemitic (such as [[Roberto Farinacci]] and Giuseppe Preziosi), while others such as [[Italo Balbo]], who came from [[Ferrara]] which had one of Italy's largest Jewish communities, were disgusted by the antisemitic laws and opposed them.{{sfnp|Pollard|1998|p=129}} Fascism scholar Mark Neocleous notes that while Italian fascism did not have a clear commitment to antisemitism, there were occasional antisemitic statements issued prior to 1938, such as Mussolini in 1919 declaring that the Jewish bankers in London and New York were connected by race to the Russian Bolsheviks and that eight percent of the Russian Bolsheviks were Jews.{{sfnp|Neocleous|1997|pp=35–36}}

===Anti-fascism===
{{main|Anti-fascism}}

[[File:01 partigiani a milano1.jpg|thumb|[[Italian resistance movement|Italian partisans]] in [[Milan]] during the final insurrection leading to the [[liberation of Italy]] in April 1945]]
[[File:2013-04-25 Porta san Paolo Roma.jpg|thumb|Anti-fascist demonstration at [[Porta San Paolo]] in [[Rome]] on the occasion of Italy's [[Liberation Day (Italy)|Liberation Day]] on 25 April 2013]]

Anti-fascism is a [[political movement]] in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II. During the war, the Axis powers were opposed by many countries forming the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]], and by dozens of [[resistance movement]]s worldwide.{{sfnp|Rieber|2017|pp=38–40}} Anti-fascism has been an element of movements across the political spectrum and holding many different political positions such as [[anarchism]], communism, pacifism, republicanism, social democracy, socialism and syndicalism as well as [[centrist]], [[conservative]], [[Liberalism|liberal]] and [[nationalist]] viewpoints.<ref>{{harvp|Conway III|Zubrod|Chan|McFarland|2023|p=}};{{pn|date=May 2025}} {{harvp|García|2016|p=567}}; {{harvp|Seidman|2020|p=}};{{pn|date=May 2025}} {{harvp|Seidman|2017|pp=2–8}}; {{harvp|Olechnowicz|2005|pp=636–637}}</ref>

Organization against fascism began around 1920. Fascism became the state ideology of Italy in 1922 and of Germany in 1933, spurring a large increase in anti-fascist action, including [[German resistance to Nazism]] and the [[Italian resistance movement]]. Anti-fascism was a major aspect of the Spanish Civil War, which foreshadowed World War II.{{sfnp|Seidman|2017|pp=3–4}}

Before World War II, [[Western world|the West]] had not taken seriously the threat of fascism, and anti-fascism was sometimes associated with communism.{{sfn|Copsey|2023|p=271}} However, the [[outbreak of World War II]] greatly changed Western perceptions, and fascism was seen as an existential threat by not only the communist Soviet Union but also by the [[liberal-democratic]] United States and United Kingdom.{{cn|date=May 2025}} The Axis Powers of World War II were generally fascist, and the fight against them was characterized in anti-fascist terms. [[Resistance during World War II]] to fascism occurred in every occupied country, and came from across the ideological spectrum. The defeat of the Axis powers generally ended fascism as a state ideology.{{sfnp|Lowe|2014|p=162}}

After World War II, the [[Post–World War II anti-fascism|anti-fascist movement continued]] to be active in places where organized fascism continued or re-emerged.{{sfnp|Bogel-Burroughs|Garcia|2020}} Modern [[antifa movement in the United States|antifa politics in the United States]] and Britain can be traced to opposition to the infiltration of the American and British [[punk scene]]s by [[white power skinheads]] in the 1970s and 1980s.{{sfnp|Beinart|2017}} From the late 1980s, the [[squatter]] scene and [[autonomism]] movement in [[West Germany]] were important in an upswing of [[antifa in Germany]].{{sfnp|Balhorn|2017}} There was a further increase in antifascism following the increase in [[neo-Nazism]] in Germany after the [[fall of the Berlin Wall]].{{sfnp|Beinart|2017}} In the 21st century, this greatly increased in prominence as a response to the resurgence of the [[Radical right (United States)|radical right]], especially after the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 election of Donald Trump]].{{sfnp|Beinart|2017}}{{sfnp|Beauchamp|2020}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Politics|History}}
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* {{anl|Anti-fascism}}
* {{anl|Authoritarianism}}
* {{anl|Autocracy}}
* {{anl|Dictatorship}}
* {{anl|Far-right politics}}
* {{anl|Nationalism}}
* {{anl|Right-wing politics}}
* {{anl|Totalitarianism}}
* {{anl|Ultranationalism}}
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===Further reading===
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* {{Cite journal |last=Ahmed |first=Saladdin |date=July 2023 |title=Fascism as an Ideological Form: A Critical Theory |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362039222 |journal=Critical Sociology |language=en |volume=49 |issue=4–5 |pages=669–687 |doi=10.1177/08969205221109869 |issn=0896-9205}}
* {{Cite book |last=Albright |first=Madeleine |author-link=Madeleine Albright |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zzs2DwAAQBAJ |title=Fascism: a warning |date=2018 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |isbn=978-0-00-828227-1 |location=London |oclc=1031976003}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Alcalde |first=Ángel |date=May 2020 |title=The Transnational Consensus: Fascism and Nazism in Current Research |journal=[[Contemporary European History]] |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=243–252 |doi=10.1017/S0960777320000089 |issn=0960-7773 |s2cid=213889043}}
* {{cite book |last=Ben-Ghiat |first=Ruth |author-link=Ruth Ben-Ghiat |date=2020 |title=Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present |publisher=[[W.W. Norton & Company]] |url= |edition=1st |isbn=978-1-324001546 |oclc=1192304012}}
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==External links==
{{Wiktionary|fascism}}
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* {{Britannica|202210}}
* {{Internet Archive author|sname=Fascism}}
* [http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm ''The Doctrine of Fascism''] by Benito Mussolini (1932) {{in lang|en}}
* [http://media.wix.com/ugd/927b40_c1ee26114a4d480cb048f5f96a4cc68f.pdf Authorized translation of Mussolini's "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism" (1933)] (PDF) on media.wix.com
* [[:gutenberg:14058|Readings on Fascism and National Socialism by Various – Project Gutenberg]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130930081524/http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt"] – [[Umberto Eco]]'s list of 14 characteristics of Fascism, originally published 1995

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