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Ultranationalist, authoritarian political tradition that places the nation above individual rights, rejects liberal democracy and political pluralism, and glorifies leadership, mobilization, and political violence. Fascist movements varied across countries and periods.
EDITORIAL SUMMARY
I want a nation exalted under a strong state and a single leader, with militarism, mass mobilization and corporations serving the fatherland.
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Fascism is ultranationalist and authoritarian, rejects liberal democracy and pluralism, and embraces political violence.
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This position is 52.6 points from the median of the 257 ideology profiles in this collection.
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This position is 8.9 points from this collection’s median.
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The creator of fascism, Mussolini ruled Italy as a totalitarian dictatorship built on a leader cult and a corporatist state. An atheist and anticlerical in his youth, he made the Church a political ally through the 1929 Lateran Pacts, more from expediency than faith.
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German variant of fascism based on racism, antisemitism, and expansionism, which united totalitarianism, the cult of Hitler, and the idea of a superior race, culminating in World War II and the Holocaust.
Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
Dystopia that combines the totalitarian authoritarianism of fascism with digital surveillance, artificial intelligence, and technological control of the masses, using technique to repress, manipulate, and dominate all of society.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertário24.8 / 100
