Fascism is a political ideology, officially syncretic, incorporating various idea's and concepts deriving either from the left and right wings of the political spectrum. Features from both the moderate left and far-right wing spectrums are both recognisable, if analysed. Encompassing radical nationalist authoritarianism, anti-intellectualism and militant action.

The territorial expansionism of Italian fascism and German Nazism have their origins in both great power competition and nationalism. Great powers possess more territory and the resources it may provide for war-making. Thus the Italian drive to conquer Ethiopia. The nationalist obsession with national territory and the national idenity of the population living on it is an elaboration of the impulse of great power competition. Colonizing territory with fellow nationals means that its resources will be avialable in a future conflict with other great powers. Thus the German attempt to colonize Ukraine.

Originally anti-clerical, Italian fascism in practice found political allies in the Roman Catholic Church against the political left, especially the officially aetheist Italian Communist Party. German Nazism was also secular but most leading Nazis embraced a heterodox form of Christianity called Positive Christianity. Other European fascisms such the Spanish Falangists, Belgian Regists, Romanian Iron Guard, and Hungarian Arrow Cross were explicitly Christian.

Anxiety about sexuality and sexual identity was important in the mid-20th century rise of fascism. Like the continental fascisms, Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascism emphasized the masculine. The propaganda of his Blackshirts symbolically castrated opponents by ascribing them with feminine characteristics.    

Table of Contents 1 Overview: Characteristics and features of Fascist regimes 1.1 Race and Ethnicity 1.2 Militarism 1.3 Sex and Gender 1.4 Hetrosexuality:  Masculinity and Femininity 1.5 Political Spectrum basis 2 Hierarchy and Leadership 3 Ideological Embodiements 3.1 Moderate Left political incorporations 3.2 Far-right political incorporations 4 Ideologies which share or have identical ideas and concepts of Fascism 5 Fascist Economics and Financial system 6 Historical and Current examples and implementations 7 Sources

Overview: Characteristics and features of Fascist regimesEdit

   

Race and EthnicityEdit

   

MilitarismEdit

   

Sex and GenderEdit

   

Hetrosexuality:  Masculinity and FemininityEdit

Political Spectrum basisEdit

Social:  Right-wing

Fiscal (economical):  Centrism

Political:  Officially Syncretism

Religious:  pro-state religion

• Roman Catholicism in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Austria

• Christianity (Protestantism) was state religion in Germany

   

Hierarchy and LeadershipEdit

The Fascist hierarchy embodies anti-capitalist, patriarchal, pro-racial (usually)  

Ideological EmbodiementsEdit

Moderate Left political incorporationsEdit

• Socialism

   

Far-right political incorporationsEdit

• Radicalism

• Nationalism

-Patriotism (hence the militaristic stance the predominant Fascist regimes established theoretically and practically)

• Conservativism
• Populism (disputable)

   

Ideologies which share or have identical ideas and concepts of FascismEdit

• Fascism (itself)
• Italian Fascism

• National Socialism (German Fascism)

• Falangism (Spainish Fascism)

• Stalinism (often referred to as Red Fascism)-Applied in Soviet Union, North Korea and Khmer Rouge Cambodia
• Nasserism (disputable)

• Ba'athism (Arab Fascism)

• Larouche political beliefs (often referred to as Fascism)
• National Bolshevikism (often viewable as Russian Fascism)

Fascist Economics and Financial systemEdit

Fascism encompassed either features or endorsed one or all of these concepts

• Autarky
• Corporatism

• Protectionism

• Syndicalism

Historical and Current examples and implementationsEdit

• Nazi Germany (1933 - 1945)

• Kingdom of Italy (1922 - 1945)
• Fascist Italian Social Republic
• Falangle Spain (1939-1975)
• Independent State of Croatia (1941 - 1945)
• Ba'athist Iraq

• Ba'athist Syria

• Stalinist Soviet Union (disputed)

SourcesEdit

• Stephen Dorril. 2007. Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley & British Fascism. New York: Penguin. p. 227.
• Wendy Lower. 2005. Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in the Ukraine. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
• Richard Steigmann-Gall. 2003. The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Michaela Wrong. 2005. I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation. New York: Harper Perrennial.