Politics

From 1929 fascism has become universal phenomenon

Dominant forces of 19th century democracy socialism liberalism have been exhausted

Fascists criticized egalitarianism as preserving weak instead promoted social Darwinist views and policies

Fascism could pose as third-way alternative between capitalism and Bolshevism

Fascists were opposed to social welfare arguing it encouraged preservation of degenerate and feeble

NSV distributed assistance on explicitly racial grounds

NSV provided support only to those who were racially sound capable of and willing to work politically reliable and willing and able to reproduce

Mussolini's The Doctrine of Fascism states the Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing.

Education was designed to glorify the fascist movement and inform students of its importance.

Carl Schmitt argued against liberal and parliamentarian democracy as obstacles to state power in The Concept of the Political.

Falangism in Spain envisioned worldwide unification of Spanish-speaking peoples.

British Fascism was non-interventionist though it embraced the British Empire.

Fascism promotes establishing a totalitarian state.

Fascism opposes liberal democracy rejects multi-party systems and may support a one-party state.

Mussolini adopted this view in description of proletarian character.

Historians and scholars disagree on whether a specifically fascist economic policy exists.

Fascism condemned widespread character traits associated with typical bourgeois mentality such as materialism crassness cowardice and inability to comprehend heroic ideal of fascist warrior and associations with liberalism individualism and parliamentarianism.

Enrico Corradini developed idea of proletarian nations defining proletarian as being one and same with producers.

Fascism changed citizenship from enjoying rights and duties to participating in mass ceremonies.

Robert Paxton argues passionate nationalism and a conspiratorial view of history are the basis of fascism.