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A 4 page research paper that examines the nature of fascism and whether it could occur in the US. Since the 1930s and 40s, historical scholarship has wrestled with the problem of precisely how to define fascism, in both its Italian and German forms, and how to differentiate these forms from other totalitarian regimes, such as Stalinism. The lurking question behind all of such scholarship is whether or not fascism could emerge again on the world political stage. Looking at the common factors shared by the regimes of Hitler and Mussolini, as well as the features that they both share with Stalinism. There appears to be common ground in all of these authoritarian regimes that appeals to something basic in Western character and which, therefore, constitutes a danger to the concepts of democratic governance. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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how to differentiate these forms from other totalitarian regimes, such as Stalinism. The lurking question behind all of such scholarship is whether or not fascism could emerge again on
the world political stage. Looking at the common factors shared by the regimes of Hitler and Mussolini, as well as the features that they both share with Stalinism. There appears
to be common ground in all of these authoritarian regimes that appeals to something basic in Western character and which, therefore, constitutes a danger to the concepts of democratic governance.
In this 1932 essay defining fascism, Mussolini indicates the fascist orientation that pictures national expansion as both heroic and necessary. "For Fascism, the growth of empire, that is to
say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality" (Mussolini). The state is conceptualized as supreme and Mussolinis version of fascism apparently drew its inspiration from the
desire to recreate "the glories of ancient Rome" (Baker). While dissimilar to Italian fascism in severity, Nazism also appealed to the German peoples sense of their past (Baker). Nazism,
a "ragbag of mystical nonsense and pseudo-scientific nostrums," proposed that only by natural selection and the imposition of "strict Darwinian principles" could the present-day Germans achieve their intended destiny (Baker).
In both cases, these philosophies emerged as a means of escaping the "perceived spiritual and material crisis" that existed in both of these countries at the time (Baker). In both
cases, the creation of a new society was proposed as both a mean of escaping the moral degradation perceived in the present society and as a means to return to
the glory of former days. In this manner, fascism can be seen as the "end-point of reactionary counter-revolutionary thought against the Enlightenment" (Baker). Another point of commonality is that
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