- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Far-right, authoritarian ultranationalistic political ideology. For other uses, see Fascism (disambiguation).
- This is where Italian philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco comes in. He devised a set of fourteen common features of Fascism in his essay ‘Ur-Fascism’.
- Originally, the term "fascism" (fascismo) was used by the political movement that ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini.
- The word fascism comes from the Latin fasces, which denotes a bundle of wooden rods that typically included a protruding axe blade.
- Fascism. ... ^ Blamires, Cyprian, World Fascism: a Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1 (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2006) p. 140–141, 670.
- While most do understand that fascism is a form of totalitarian government, there is a common misconception that all forms of totalitarian governments are fascist.
- 3.9 Pro-intellectualism. 3.10 Anti-Communism. 3.11 Fascism and the Church. 3.12 The term "fascism"as an epithet. 3.13 Fascism and the political spectrum.
- : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. early instances of army fascism and brutality— J. W. Aldridge.
- Fascism first emerged out of the aftermath of the First World War in Italy, and was later adopted by Nazi Germany.
- Fascism - definition. A totalitarian philosophy of government that glorifies the state and nation and assigns to the state control over every aspect of national life.
