Fascism-the meanings behind the words

So many words are used and we never think about what they mean.. or compare thenm to real life. heres a few words i've seen used on this site.. lets all take a moment to step back from ourselfs and look at the world around us in reference to these words.

Taken from www.dictionary.com

1. often Fascism<LI type=a>A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
2. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
3. Oppressive, dictatorial control.

dic·ta·tor
n.

1. 1. <LI type=a>An absolute ruler.
   2. A tyrant; a despot.
2. An ancient Roman magistrate appointed temporarily to deal with an immediate crisis or emergency.
3. One who dictates: These initials are those of the dictator of the letter.

free speech
n.

The right to express any opinion in public without censorship or restraint by the government.meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a
n.

1. A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
2. An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.

(i must say i do love that word)


lib·er·al
adj.

1. 1. <LI type=a>Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. <LI type=a>Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
   2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
   3. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.

I'm not too good with political wordings so i thought these might come in handy to anyone who like me needs a bit of back up with words. Anyone else feel like adding more? i got bored after these few.

 

Well Faschism has a slighty different meaning than, an autocracy, or totalitarian system. It believes that the leader, not only rules with an Iron fist, but is a father figure to all the people. They basically wanna be everyones daddy!

 

yeah, daddy with a razor-hooked whip.

 

I don't think dictionary.com is the best source of definitions. A physical dictionary is usually more accurate.

I use a Webster's dictionary, or the Oxford English Dictionary (when I can get hold of it).

 

Fascism combined with an Olygarchy is in my opinion the best, because a nation can't be ruled by it's people because the average joe is not that smart.

 

bush
enough said

 

actually to fully understand a word and the total force of its meaaning you should try using what is called an etymological dictionary.
Etymology is the study of the history of a word
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology

For example
http://www.etymonline.com

 

Dude, you are not smart, I'm sure you think you are, but an 8 year old kid can copy and paste, find some friends.

 

Fuck you! bother to read it you you trumped up little squirt !

 

I thought that facism was when ppl tried to make everybody the same - surpressing all individuality,

 

No, that's called liberalism, it can also be called communism but liberalist countries are much more abundant.

 

In my understanding of it, fascism emphasizes the national identity over the so-called 'individuality'... everyone is supposed to work towards the national ideal.

Of course any definition you find is going to be negative. I expect it will be a while before people start using their brains about it and not picture evil Adolf Hitler ranting angrily in German when talking about fascism.

 

Exellent.

I hope so too.

 

The definition of fascism needs to include the fact that under fascism productive wealth remains in private hands, and that those who were rich before a fascist takeover remain rich after wards. Some Republicans like to claim that Nazism and Fascism were left wing movements, but that is the important difference between Nazism and Fascism on one hand, and socialism and Communism on the other. It is the reason the rich in Germany and Italy usually supported Hitler and Mussolini.

A fascist government is a totalitarian government that protects the wealth of the rich. Rich people will not support fascism unless they are afraid of losing their wealth, but then they will. It is no accident that the first Ayn Rand novel that was made into a movie was made into a movie in Fascist Italy.

 

What did the Fascist government in Italy do that a democratic government could not have achieved? I have even read that Italy was less ready for World War II than World War I.

 

That's the problem. Nobody knows what fascism means anymore. These days people use "fascism" merely as a curse word to refer to anybody who is trying to impose political policies that they don't like.

Originally, fascism was an economic theory of government. Among the intelligentsia, who were debating various revolutionary new systems of government amid the rubble of post-World War I Europe, fascism was considered "right wing" because it was to the right of socialism and communism on the scale of government control over the economy. The further to the left, the more government control over the economy. But all three, socialism, communism, and fascism, were far, far to the left of capitalism or any political system we ever had in America, until recently at least. All three leftist political philosophies are premised on the belief that government had to control the economy in order to solve the economic problems Europe had at that time.

Communism opposed all private ownership of property, and proposed common ownership of everything by everybody. Socialism, somewhat to the right of communism, allowed individual ownership of private property, but proposed state ownership and control of industry (the "means of production"). Fascism, somewhat to the right of socialism, allowed private ownership of property and corporations, but proposed strong governmental control over industry and corporations, including regulating what the corporations could do and how they could be operated. Under fascism government would make sure that corporations were operating for the public good, would subsidize them as necessary, and could interfere in their management, for example taking part in corporate decisions such as who their officers could be and how much their officers and employees could or should be paid.

All three left-wing forms of government, communism, socialism, and fascism, required strong central government control in order to work. As a Communist government (the Bolsheviks) took control in Russia and a Fascist Government (the Nazis) took control in Germany, both resorted to totalitarian means to impose their new systems on their respective populaces. In addition, both Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany Germany resorted to dictatorship (official dictatorship under "Führer" Hitler in Germany and de facto dictatorship under Stalin in Russia), and both used the technique of scapegoating as a method of galvanizing public support behind a strong central government. The Soviets scapegoated capitalists and individualists; the Nazis scapegoated communists, the Jews, and other "non-Aryans," adopting "scientific" racial theories including antisemitism (a term coined by Jew-haters to give Jew-hatred an aura of scientific respectability). Because the German fascists used racism and dictatorship as official policies, racism and dictatorship are now identified with fascism, although they weren't part of the original theory of fascism.

 

That was massively ignorant. Fascists in Italy and Spain were tolerant of non-natives.

 

“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

Upton Sinclair

 

Do they still have fascist in the world today or are they all gone? I don’t mean like individual people I mean countries, governments.

 

France is going through it's fascist stage again; Italy; now that's a nation which has a compassionate past with governments administrating for idealistic people who do not label why your human rights are such as they are in a particular period of history.