Quote: (03-04-2013 07:01 AM)soup Wrote:
Except for that holocaust/WWII thingy.
Technically speaking, Nazi Germany wasn't fascist, it was "national socialist" (according to Hitler's definition). The true fascists were the Italians under Mussolini. People like to conflate "Authoritarian Nationalism" with "Fascism", but they are not the same thing. Both Hitler and Mussolini were heavily influenced by Sparta and Ancient Rome, but Hitler incorporated Nordicism and other racialist ideologies into it, whereas Mussolini focused on Statism.
Portugal and Spain in the 1930s were also "quasi-fascist", and they did not invade any country, or start any wars with other countries (though Spain had its civil war).
Fascism, Nazism, and its variants were reactions against the internationalism of American capitalism and Soviet socialism. In WWII, the two major internationalists (US and USSR) won, and the two major nationalists (Germany and Japan) lost. If Germany and Japan had won, the world today would have been very, very different.
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