Facism And Patriotism

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of patriotism has an expectation that it must be learned, the connotation, the shared meaning within the current cultural setting, demands that there be an element of free agency to patriotism that is not part of the shared definition of the totalitarian policies of either Fascism or Nazism.
This element of choice is the difference between pledging one's life to fight for the love of their country and being coerced and intimidated into obedience. There is also an element of equality associated with patriotism, as opposed to submission and sycophancy that is inherent to social systems that build on intolerance towards one's peers, such as Nazism, and Fascism to a certain degree. "Nazism and Fascism emerged out of the moral, social and intellectual crisis of Europe in the aftermath of the 1914-18 War. They were a set of responses not to the crisis in general but to what were identified as its key features. The ancient regime that still persisted in 1914 had been moving ...

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was embedded in the rhetoric of the emerging powers, however, the concrete evidence was the economic gain made by those 'loyal' to the regime. Membership in the lower classes was given social meaning engendered by a new sense of communal purpose and a new sense of hope (Harvey, 1999). The Fascist political regime was firmly in power as the depression hit - and quickly took control of all economic policy, including the means and rights to work. "The March 1928 decree on `the national regulation of the supply and demand of labor' had been signaled nearly a year before in the Labour Charter, the regime's statement of general principles on labor organization, and it followed logically ...

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