The Doctrine Of Fascism

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World War I. The humiliation imposed by the
victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic
Depression, created bitterness and anger. That anger frequently found its
outlet in an ideology that asserted not just the importance of the nation, but
its unquestionable superiority and predestined role in history.

Italy was the birthplace of Fascist ideology. Mussolini, ironically a former
socialist journalist, organized the first Fascist movement in 1919 at Milan. In
1922 Mussolini led a march on Rome, he was given a government post by the
king, and began transforming the Italian government into a Fascist state. In
1938 he forced the last remains of democracy, the Council of Deputies, to vote
themselves out of existence, leaving Mussolini dictator of Fascist Italy.

Fascism and the Doctrine of Fascism is more complex than popular belief. What,
then, is the nature of Fascism?

Fundamental Ideas

The doctrine tells of a world where the ...

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or in opposition to the state has no true
value. A citizen cannot believe in anything that the state does not want him to
believe in, nor can he do anything the state does not want him to do. The state
becomes the citizens supreme authority and the will of the citizen is the state.


The Doctrine of Fascism is hostile towards Socialism, liberalism, and democracy.
Fascism rejects the concept of class struggle as a threat to the unity of the
state. While Socialism refutes the need for any type of government at all,
Fascism is founded by the concept that there is nothing but government. Fascism
rejects the liberal doctrines of individual autonomy and rights and
representative ...

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