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Fascism promotes establishing a totalitarian state.

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.

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

Fascism is distinguished by absence of coherent economic ideology and lack of serious economic thinking Feldman and Mason argue.

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.

Fascism expanded the powers of the executive for total control.

Fascism unleashed aggressive emotions known in Europe only during war or social revolution.

The Proud Boys and Patriot Front were founded around this period.

Nazism and Italian Fascism were expansionist and irredentist.

Ultranationalism combined with national rebirth is a key foundation of fascism.

European fascist movements typically espouse a racist conception of non-Europeans being inferior to Europeans.

The Unite the Right rally in 2017 saw marchers from far-right groups and movements.

Fascism redrew frontiers between private and public diminishing what was once private.

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

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

Fascists view a nation as a single organic entity binding people by ancestry.

Fascism reconfigured relations between the individual and the collectivity so individuals had no rights outside community interest.

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