The Doctrine Of Fascism

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Term Paper Title	The Doctrine Of Fascism
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The Doctrine of Fascism

The Doctrine of Fascism

Some General Ideological Features

"Reactionary concepts plus revolutionary emotion result in Fascist mentality."
                                                             -Wilhelm Reich

Is  nationalism  inherently  evil?  Would a one-world government be more
preferable? Are  appreciating and defending one's own culture and cultural
values somehow primitive instincts that  must be overcome by  the educational
efforts  of the enlightened?

We have  all  heard  of  Fascism, but  our image  is  usually of a brutal
soldier wearing a uniform  emblazoned with a swastika. Most people in the U.S.
are aware that the U.S. and its allies fought a war against the Nazis, but there
is much more to know if one is to learn the important lessons of our recent
history.

Adolph Hitler's Nazis were certainly the most prolific of the Fascist states.
The seeds of Fascism, however, were planted in  Italy. "Fascism is reaction,"
said Benito Mussolini, author of The Doctrine of Fascism, but reaction to what?

Mussolini forged Fascism in post-World War I  in  Europe.   The   national
aspirations   of   many   European  peoples nations without states, peoples
arbitrarily assigned to  political entities with little regard  for custom or
culture had  been crushed after World  War I. The  humiliation imposed by  the
victors in  the  Great War,  coupled  with the  hardship  of the  economic
Depression,  created bitterness  and anger.  That anger  frequently found its
outlet in an ideology that asserted not just the importance of the nation, but
its unquestionable superiority and predestined role in history.

Italy was the birthplace of Fascist ideology.  Mussolini, ironically a former
socialist journalist, organized the first Fascist movement in 1919 at Milan. In
1922 Mussolini  led a march  on Rome,  he was given a  government post by the
king, and began transforming the Italian  government into a Fascist state. In
1938 he forced the last remains of democracy, the Council of Deputies, to vote
themselves out of existence, leaving Mussolini dictator of Fascist Italy.

Fascism and the Doctrine of Fascism is more complex than popular belief. What,
then, is the nature of Fascism?

Fundamental Ideas

The doctrine tells of a world where the instinctiveness of man to live a life of
selfish and momentary pleasure are subjugated by a moral law.  A law which binds
together individuals into a mission in which through the denial of themselves
an...

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