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For the record, Fascism is not statist \
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For the record, Fascism is not statist \\\"by definition\\\", though that is a popular misconception; at the very least, there are plenty of historians and political theorists who would argue otherwise. There are leftist Fascists and others who are not so wild about the state; in general, it was Mussolini and Hitler who, seperately, introduced the statist and other aspects of their ideology- in both cases, they added to and codified their ideology after taking power to justify political strategy (read: consolidating their own power). In fact, a lot of Fascist ideology was either appealing to whatever they thought their audience wanted to hear, or just the leadership trying to justify their policies to the disillusioned rank-and-file.
The core of Fascist ideology is a drive for moral and cultural revolution towards the creation of a new society founded on neo-classical values (or their version of them), such glorification of war and imperialism and an extreme anti-egalitarianism (that is, they opposed the idea that anyone is equal in any way). Aspects like statism and the cult of personality and such were basically strategy- how they took and enforced their power-, and totalitarianism was just a tool to impose their ideology, and not the be-all and end-all or even a core part of the philosophy.
There are lots of other nuances as well as the fact Fascism tends to invite a bunch of political opportunists and reprobates who will say or do anything to attain power; Mussolini himself was not a very good Fascist and didn\\\'t believe that Italy was capable of being turned into a Fascist state (so essentially, for at least half of his reign Italy was basically just the personal dictatorship of Mussolini). Fascism is not Statism; statism is Fascist strategy, and its not one they all agreed on either.
The core of Fascist ideology is a drive for moral and cultural revolution towards the creation of a new society founded on neo-classical values (or their version of them), such glorification of war and imperialism and an extreme anti-egalitarianism (that is, they opposed the idea that anyone is equal in any way). Aspects like statism and the cult of personality and such were basically strategy- how they took and enforced their power-, and totalitarianism was just a tool to impose their ideology, and not the be-all and end-all or even a core part of the philosophy.
There are lots of other nuances as well as the fact Fascism tends to invite a bunch of political opportunists and reprobates who will say or do anything to attain power; Mussolini himself was not a very good Fascist and didn\\\'t believe that Italy was capable of being turned into a Fascist state (so essentially, for at least half of his reign Italy was basically just the personal dictatorship of Mussolini). Fascism is not Statism; statism is Fascist strategy, and its not one they all agreed on either.
