Fascism Essay

Fascism is a form of government where the leader has complete control over the land and its citizens, in other words it is a dictatorship form of government. Fascism came to be in between 1915 and 1920 in Europe. The first country to take part in fascism was Italy under its leader Mussolini. Following introduction in Italy it rapidly spread across Europe with some of the most notable countries being Germany, Spain, Portugal and Austria.

One of the causes of fascism is the harsh economic times that were experienced in Europe (Press 19). This resulted in social and economic instability in the European nations. The governments in these nations did not do much to mitigate against the harsh economic times. The end result was uprisings that forced the governments to focus on fascism as a means of controlling dissent among the citizens. Fascism was introduced by several world leaders in their respective countries with Mussolini spearheading it in Italy while Hitler championed it in Germany. These leaders introduced the idea that an all powerful strong leader would help them prosper and the nations bought the idea and the birth of socialism came to be

Socialism advocated for total power to the leader and gave no regard to democracy or socialism. In fact other forms of democracy such as trade unions were banned and anyone who was found to be radical to their beliefs was incarcerated. To some extent fascism was also a violent type of rule especially during taking over of the governments with Mussolini categorically stating that he would not take power through a tradesman entrance emphasizing this fact (McKay 24).

Though fascism has its roots in Italy, it in Germany where it was heavily practiced by Hitler. This can be attributed to differen...

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...d his people and therefore advocated for the extermination of them as a race from the face of the earth. Germans blindly followed this ideology and persecuted the innocent Jews. This war blinded them from the fact that the economy was still not doing well enough as had been promised. In contrast, the other countries such as Italy and Spain only experienced violence during the take over from the previous regime and once that was settled everything went back to normal. This gave the population a chance to reflect on the government’s performance which was dismal to say the least and this eventually led to their downfall.

In conclusion, fascism has been taken over by time. However, it is still an integral part of history. From the above evidence, it is quite clear that fascism was more effective in Germany as compared to other European countries such as Italy and Spain.