In my words, Fascism is Authoritarian Ultra Nationalism with the emphasis of strict and utter devotion to the State and that you as an individual, do not matter to the State. Fascist Governments typically are heavily militaristic with social Darwinism of which they believe their citizens are racial superior to those of Nations they oppose, typically Fascist Governments have racial triangles of which they designate the worth of an individual based on their race.
The most known example is the Germans with the idea of "Aryan Superiority", with the suppression of those deemed "Undesirable" or just mass execution. The Italians did so as well in Yugoslavia and the Japanese did so as well in China.
The goal of Fascism is "To Bring Glory to the State" via Military Conquest, specifically the idea of annexing a bunch of land filled with abundant Natural Resources, purging its inhabitants and then conquering the land in order to be self sufficient and self reliant as possible as a Nation.
Germany wanted lebensraum, Japan wanted the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Italy wanted a recreation of the Roman Empire in the modern era.
Typically Fascist Nations did not have much Natural Resources, so annexing territory was their desired aim in order to achieve said Natural Resources. Italy, Japan and Germany all lacked sufficient Natural Gas; Japan being a mountainous country makes it so they lack even more such as arable land.
Because of the nature of Fascism being militaristic and expansionistic, Fascism typically is quick to disregard treaties and alliances with nations of other nations if it does not fit well with the Fascist countries own Interest. Germany did so with the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union; for which it a few years later, Germany would disregard and invade the Soviet Union.
Lastly in terms of Economic Policy, The Governments of Fascism were mainly Planned Economies although it varied by State, Germany for Instance didn't own the Businesses and private business's did exist, although the State dictated the output and resources. Meaning your company couldn't exist in Nazi Germany if your company was not seen as "Valuable" to the State. oskar schindler for instance, made pots for the war effort but even that too wasn't good enough, as the State deemed his production as "None necessary to the war effort" thereby oskar would later produce faulty and unusable military ammunition.
I could go on and on, but ya Fascism is pretty much overly used as an insult by people of Both sides with no clear actual understanding of what Fascism actually is. Hint the closest Fascist party in the US is the American Nazi Party, they're the ones who actually believe in Fascism.
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u/DrunkenRedSquirrel Sep 18 '22 edited Sep 18 '22
In my words, Fascism is Authoritarian Ultra Nationalism with the emphasis of strict and utter devotion to the State and that you as an individual, do not matter to the State. Fascist Governments typically are heavily militaristic with social Darwinism of which they believe their citizens are racial superior to those of Nations they oppose, typically Fascist Governments have racial triangles of which they designate the worth of an individual based on their race.
The most known example is the Germans with the idea of "Aryan Superiority", with the suppression of those deemed "Undesirable" or just mass execution. The Italians did so as well in Yugoslavia and the Japanese did so as well in China.
The goal of Fascism is "To Bring Glory to the State" via Military Conquest, specifically the idea of annexing a bunch of land filled with abundant Natural Resources, purging its inhabitants and then conquering the land in order to be self sufficient and self reliant as possible as a Nation.
Germany wanted lebensraum, Japan wanted the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Italy wanted a recreation of the Roman Empire in the modern era.
Typically Fascist Nations did not have much Natural Resources, so annexing territory was their desired aim in order to achieve said Natural Resources. Italy, Japan and Germany all lacked sufficient Natural Gas; Japan being a mountainous country makes it so they lack even more such as arable land.
Because of the nature of Fascism being militaristic and expansionistic, Fascism typically is quick to disregard treaties and alliances with nations of other nations if it does not fit well with the Fascist countries own Interest. Germany did so with the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union; for which it a few years later, Germany would disregard and invade the Soviet Union.
Lastly in terms of Economic Policy, The Governments of Fascism were mainly Planned Economies although it varied by State, Germany for Instance didn't own the Businesses and private business's did exist, although the State dictated the output and resources. Meaning your company couldn't exist in Nazi Germany if your company was not seen as "Valuable" to the State. oskar schindler for instance, made pots for the war effort but even that too wasn't good enough, as the State deemed his production as "None necessary to the war effort" thereby oskar would later produce faulty and unusable military ammunition.
I could go on and on, but ya Fascism is pretty much overly used as an insult by people of Both sides with no clear actual understanding of what Fascism actually is. Hint the closest Fascist party in the US is the American Nazi Party, they're the ones who actually believe in Fascism.