Fascism

At first, it was only used to cushion mechanical elements in submarines... but later... once the war began to go down hill... the hair was woven into blankets for the army.

Mein Kampf by adolf hittler

Fascism, which is an authoritarian ideology that holds the beliefs and norms of the individual to a lesser value than the beliefs and norms which are in force through the imposition of a group of individuals, namely the state.

Therefore, the fascist mentality is the state of mind of one who believes in the superiority of the sanctity of the state or greater collective over the supposed inferiority of the individual.

The fascist mentality is sympathetic to any particular institution that supports the development of the state (or suppresses individuality, whichever may come first), is heavily nationalistic, and is negatively expressive towards any particular group that may stick out from the majority that is benefited or favored by, and may pose a threat to the sanctity of the state.

The fascist mentality is also expressly fond of the military/police aspect of the state. It sees state force as an extension of the individual self, as the fascist wants and values authority, defense, order, loyalty and parenthood, which are the "core values" that are most favored by human beings.

Thus, in order to realize these ideals and values, the fascist sees service to the state institutions, and forceful expressions of opposition against the threats to the state's superiority, as the ticket to the realization and fulfillment of oneself. Also, because of the executive's leadership role in the direction of the military/state force, the fascist mentality is much more likely to favor the executive branch's handling of political power, and has expectations that the legislative and judicial branches will stand behind the executive for the sake of the nation's advancement. If the legislative and judicial branches do not stand behind the president or executive leader, then those branches are a detriment to the advancement of the state, the people and the citizen.

The term "fascist mentality" is often used in political arguments and polemics, most often to accuse the political right, especially those who have a neo-conserative bent, of exhibiting seemingly fascist tendencies and rhetoric, as the neo-conservative movement in American politics has expressed a greater interest in the use of arms as a force for stabilization, and has also drawn upon the support of citizens who fear the incursion of supposed enemies to the stability of the state, such as Islamist fundamentalist insurgents and illegal immigrants. However, the neo-conservative movement has actually thrived from an internationalization of the movement's struggles, including the War on Terrorism. It has won friends and allies from other countries, including those whose populations had suffered terroristic attacks from Islamist insurgents embedded within their local Muslim populations.

I can tell you something that interests me: me being someone who was not born until long after the end of the Second World War, but whose heart goes out to everyone who suffered and/or died during that time.

Why did the Holocaust happen? There are many answers, none of them comprehensive. But after studying the history of the period for a very long time, one idea stays with me.

How could anyone do to anyone what the Germans did to the Jews of Europe? It seems to me that the Nazi ideology required adherents to murder large parts of their own psyches. Huge parts of the Nazi's inner birthright as a human being had to be suppressed, cut off, destroyed, suppressed. Compassion, for instance. And everything that seemed "feminine", such as emotions, especially love and empathy. (Nazis hated women. Even now, there is a word in German, 'weiblich', that sounds as if it should mean 'feminine', but really it means 'stupid'.) The German man who was trying to belong to the Nazi community was deeply ashamed of these parts of himself, and terrified of them. If they were seen by others, he would be rejected by the group he longed to merge with.

Carl Jung taught the world about the power of projection: how each of us can see in the outer world only what exists inside of us. Our image of another person is not truly them: it is our own projection, a manifestation before our eyes of what already exists within us. If the thing we see was not part of our own self, we would not recognize it in the outside world.

I believe that the Nazis projected their own Shadow onto the Jews of Europe. That is, the part of themselves that frightened them, that they rejected, that they would do anything rather than accept as a part of their own selves. Jews were Other; they were individualistic, not joiners, not belong-ers. They were helpless, many of them were poor. Many of them were intellectual or artistic. All of these were qualities that Naziism rejected, and that individual Nazis rejected inside themselves. Nazis were required to be masculine, powerful, anti-intellectual, without doubts or secret thoughts of any kind. They longed to be exactly the same as the man marching next to them: witness the uniforms, whose true purpose was (and is) to mask the individuality of the men wearing it.

What did the Germans gain by creating the Holocaust? That question has been bothering me for a long time. All that effort and money and time and labor, for what? What *good* did it do them, to do what they did?

I believe that what they were engaged in was the slaughter of their own intolerable inner selves.

I think of the symbolism of the concentration camp in relation to this. Why did the Nazis choose to do the particular things that they did? They tried to erase the individuality of their victims (shaving, removal of clothing, replacement of names with numbers.) They even gave their victims a uniform, of sorts--nothing from Hugo Boss, but garments of grey and blue stripes, signifying the new identity of the wearer as a prisoner and a slave. They seem to have cared about preserving the distinction between men and women: even in the freezing winters of eastern Poland, they gave women prisoners dresses instead of trousers. Almost as if they were protecting their male Jewish prisoners from identification with women.

It's as if the Nazis were saying, "You would not/could not join in. Now we are *forcing* you to join the group. We are taking away your existence as an individual. And when you have felt that fact, we will take away your life altogether."

So I began to see a sort of ghastly mirroring of the Nazis themselves in their victims in the camps. That whole world, after all, came out of the psyches of the Germans. The Jews did nothing to envision or to create it. Those emaciated human forms whom we see in films from the time of liberation--they are an image born out of the Nazi mind, not the Jewish one. The prisoners in the concentration camps were uniformed, as identical as possible, strictly segregated by sex. In Treblinka, at least, they were even forced to sing a militaristic marching song.

I believe that a Nazi, looking at a concentration camp prisoner as he suffered and died, was actually watching himself. That is what I find interesting about the Nazis. Because we *all* belong to the same species as those horrific men. What analogous trick of projection might we, ourselves, be playing?

The term fascismo came from the Italian word fascio, which means group, and also from the Latin word fasces. The fasces were a bundle of rods that were tied around an axe. Thsi was an Ancient Roman symbol used by the civic officer, which were carried by his Lictors and could be used for capital punishment as he so pleased. The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: one rod is easily broken, while the bundle is hard to break.

The Nazis were a combination of political party and militia that took over the country. The full name of the organization was the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeitpartei, the National Socialist German Workers' Party; the name Nazi was a shorthand for that.

Exactly as it has always been, and I quote from the dictionary explanation "A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)".

You can see such governments and organizations all over the world.

shirts that the Germans wore to scare off rabbits

Fascism is a smaller, less noticeable form of government control. For example, the government can control businesses by private leaders, whereas socialism is obvious as to who is in charge, basically if America was controlled by a socialist government it would be President Obama that was obviously in charge. The U.S government is pushing towards socialism.

According to Mangion (1999) since the Unification of Italy it's government was so weak that it failed drastically to please its people. The majority population especially the the middle class who owned the most means of production remained poor and unsuccessful in their businesses . During the first 20 years of the 20th century there were frequent riots and strikes during which Italian workers had occupied the factories. The government had failed to maintain peace, order and to control the upheavals that where bedevilling Italy by the time. This opened room for Benito Mussolini to rise to power since 1919 in which he began to rule in 1922.

By meaning Fascism simply means totalitarian dictatorship where all the neccessities are controlled by the state including schools, economy, but to mention a few.This brought both positivity and negativity in Italy.Since it led to employment creation due to road net works construction which was also a light effect, railway construction, it also led to economic rise due to the increase in the production of corn ,cultivation of land improved drastically and the introduction of irrigation schemes to irrigate marshes etc.However viewing such issues under a microscopic diagnosis or under sacronise the fascist regime turned Italy into an authoritarian state with Mussolini as (il Duce) The absolute leader.Millitarism was Mussolini's belief and it was a high place, praised with warfare as the highest peak of human endeavour hence this created a lot of enemies to Italy for example the bombing of Corfu in 1923 and invasion of Abyssinia's in 1935. All this increased tension between Italy and other members of the league of nations resulting to the inevitability of the war....which out took in 1945 the second world war . all these can be analysed and scrutinised to come up with a good essay.THANK YOU.

Studying and understanding fascism is one way to avoid it occurring. Currently fascist States do exist in today's world. The politics of fascism are often disguised as "nationalism". As such they flourish under that tag, and allow leaders to gain power over key industries, formulate expansionist foreign policies and are in a position to reduce the power of other political parties within such a nation. There is little to be done by other nations, however, within a nation just described, the citizens can help themselves by seeing the political field as it stands and work with each other to prevent fascist dictatorships disguised as "nationalist leaders" who simply have too much unchallenged power.

A crematorium (also known as "crematory" or "cremator") is a facility where a corpse get burned at extremely high temperatures (870 - 980 degrees Celsius) until only bones and several chemical compounds remain.

Fascists are extreme nationalists and intensely anti-communist and anti-democratic. They believe in complete loyalty to (Fascist) governments and obedience among the people. Hitler and Mussolini were famous fascists.

Fascist - one who believes in a one party state that has one supreme leader leader. a tightly controlled economy that works closely with the corporate leadership and upholds the interests of private capital.

The key to note about fascism is that although the fascist dictator may set economic goals, private industry is allowed to exist. The problem that emerges is that a "controlled" economy will eventually fail as free market forces are ignored. Sooner or later a fascist controlled government must allow some economic freedoms.

The word is also widely used as a term of abuse.

A fascist is a person or political party with extreme right-wing views, often including racism, nationalism and complete obedience to authority.

Hitler was a fascism against homeless people, handy cap people, and smart people so that he can have the power to control the people.
Millions of people shed their blood to defeat fascism in the second world war.

Fascism is the extreme nationalism. And nationalism is extreme pride for your country. Fascism occurred majorly in Germany just before World War II, when Adolf Hitler rose to power.

Fascism had its origin in Italy. Although Nazism later most famously became synonimous with fascism, it was at the time only the Italian party under Mussolini in Italy that officially called itself 'fascist'.

1) Centralized government (with a dicator as a leader)

2) Economic and social regimentation

3) forcible suppresion of opposition

4) exalt nation above individual

5) perfect race

There have been very few fascist governments. All evolved from socialist economic plans by centralized governments. More and more of daily life was forced under central government control. When even sports and diet are government regulated, you have a totalitarian state = fascist. We don't know how long fascist systems can last, since the only nations to try it declared war on the USA and got occupied when they lost.

Communist dictatorships force residents to work for the government, confiscate private property, and insist on government operation of all sectors of the economy. All such efforts have failed miserably.

The Nazis were rabidly, frantically, frenetically anti-Communist.

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During the early 1930s both the Nazis and the Commies had gangs of 'street fighters', this was because the bad economic climate bred extremism, until the Nazis achieved political dominance these were quite equal, but as soon as the Nazis were in power they put the Communists in gaol or concentration camps.

Of course the Communists were equally rabidly, etc anti-National Socialist.

because it looked like a peaceful place and for the finial solution. And for mass killings

It is when fascist people come together and they form a party and what they do is get people to join them. They believe in glorifying the state/ country. They didn't want democracy. Hope that answred your question.

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I disagree. Fascism is an economic, social, and political system, and today only two countries can truly be said to practice it; Indonesia and Syria. Both are Islamic juntas which (and this is the key) codify and enshrine the power of their business elite, and worship their leaders as naturally superior (in their case chosen by God). "[Fascism] affirms the irremediable, fruitful and beneficent inequality of men." -Mussolini.

Other countries which are close to fascism, have many aspects of Fascism but not quite there include modern Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Some might argue Colombia, and post-coup Honduras were close to Fascism as well..

follow hitlers orders or die.

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Both countries used propaganda to influence citizens' beliefs.