What Is Fascism

Fascism is a radical political view primarily used after World War One and was officially instigated by Benito Mussolini in 1925 when he declared himself as dictator, fascism also inspired Hitler to create the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) which shows that Fascism is essentially an extreme political view that not only inspired the rise of Hilter and the Nazis, it also (to some degree) brought Europe back from the brink of total annihilation caused by the Great Depression and World War One. This also gave the lower to middle classes within fascist and Nazi countries hope of a better tomorrow and a new sense of pride towards their country which also lured the soldiers unsatisfied with the results of The Great War as well as the younger generation whom were drawn in to rise up and join the Fascists in overthrowing the old government.

The word ‘fascism’ originates from the Italian word fascism, which in turn was derived from the Latin word ‘fasces’, with this knowledge, Benito Mussolini attempted to recreate an Ancient Roman type system of rule, adopting the fasces symbol which consisted of a bundle of sticks with an axe coming out of the middle, this became the main symbol of fascism much like the Nazi swastika though not quite a confronting.

A fascist government party also has an unrestricted amount of political power over the populace with an iron fist while being led by a dictator, whose absolute power would be used to consolidate their power across their nation enacting a totalitarian inspired system of government to attempt to control citizens and censor any and all slanderous propaganda towards the fascist party; therefore, many people died because of these censorships within the media.

Fascism was portrayed ...

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... to resent the fascists for not going through with the points they promised to carry out when they became the major political power of the state.

Even though fascism is mostly condemned by todays politicians and did succeed in producing one of the most radical and hated group of extremist of the last century, it did achieve a lot of good when it came to repairing countries that had nearly collapsed under the crushing weight of the Great Depression and the extreme inflation that came with it, and giving the people of that period faith in a time where faith had little meaning; However must always come to an end, and with the outbreak of World War Two and the defeat of Germany and Italy, all the death that fascism caused came to light and now very few people around the world believe that fascism is the only political view that will save the world form self-destruction.