Fascism Explained | What is Fascism? What is a fascist? Who were Bennito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler?

In this video, we take a look at the political ideology of Fascism. In short, fascism is a complex and mutable political ideology, but is typically defined as a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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[democraticrepublicofsprout]

One thing to note is that fascism and nazism are not identical. Nazism uses the basis of fascism to promote its goals of racial hierarchy while fascism has more aspects in terms of economy, legislative and judicial politics, and other social sciences.
Put it like this.
All fruits are a form of vegetable, but not every vegetable is classified as a fruit.
Nazism is a form of fascism but not all fascists are nazis.

[PAC-]

Fascism doesn’t necessarily need to be right wing. It’s economically neutral, neither needing to be socialist or capitalist. (It does tend to be right wing though)

[gecko]

I though fascist meant "anyone who disagrees with me" 😅

[jamesschultz]

To be fair, the definition of Fascism is far more complex than most realize. Today, people will basically define Fascism to fit whatever political agenda they identify with. Hence, Identity politics. Usually comes from the left these days.

[jeff]

I always learn something weird when I’m high, this guy can really draw

[andrewbatts]

It amazes me that the most notorious fascists actually call themselves anti fascist

[destubae]

Fascism doesn't necessarily have to do with race. Nazism (which is what people are usually referring to) is the only "fascist" (if you are going to call it that) ideology that is extremely racist. Fascism was about nationalist "spirituality." Calling it far right is oversimplified imo, it is rooted in what was deemed left wing politics at the time and was basically just a schism of socialism. State control of all life is what you call extreme public over private (inb4 privatization myth)

[dapweb]

This video lumps the two DIFFERENT ideologies of fascism and Nazism and calls them “fascist.”

[DragonsAndDragons]

What I learnt from this video: Some of my political views are facist

[thomasvona]

You just described the Democratic party as it exist today.

[quatele]

The problem is that fascism is considered "right" and communism is considered "left", but both result in almost identical outcomes. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were were almost the same person, with a slightly different mustache. If you switched them as babies, history would have turned out exactly the same.

[IsraelGovermentOfficial]

"Of course i know him, he's me"

[scottjuhnke]

Fascism, and Nazism aren't the same. Fascism is about Nation. Nazism is about Race. This is a critical difference.

[outlaw]

Populism is not fascism. Lech Wałęsa was a populist and won a Nobel Peace Prize before being elected President of Poland in 1990 after the fall of communism in that nation.

[micknielsen]

You kind of breezed over ANTIFA giving people the impression that they were against fascism, that's why you don't listen to their words you watch what they do because again there's that Motto, "accuse the other side of that which you are guilty." Joseph Goebbels

"When Fascism comes to America, it will come under the guise of/be called anti-Fascism!"
- Attributed to Huey Long 1930’s a populist politician from the state of Louisiana.

[warrenrhinerson]

I think fascism is a word that way ever used, and ironically a lot of people claim to be anti-fascist use fascism to fight alleged cases of fascism

[moagmesmerize]

Thanks! This seems so relevant now as I am hearing in all the time in todays news.

[RD]

The discussion about the right or left, obscures a more essential point, being that it is authoritarian, suppressing civil rights, militaristic and using brute forces to maintain itself etc. Your description of what fascism is, is quite clear and undisputed - except for the extreme right part. Then it becomes disputable, as we know that certain fascist regimes and contemporary fascist movements do collaborate quite intensively with extreme-left forces. the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact is just one of the examples. And indeed, when looking around the world, which regimes show most of the characteristics of fascism, we end up with nearly all current communist regimes. So, why not concentrate on the clear characteristics of fascism and avoid getting muddled with a claim that you can not back up with sufficient undisputed facts? The enemy for me is authoritarianism and that requires all possible energy to fight. And to what extent a given form of authoritarianism can quality as left or right, I don't care at all.

[nunyabizness]

I'm a little confused here.. if communism is authoritarian and far left. How can fascism be authoritarian and far right, especially when the far right believes in limited government? Wouldn't anarchy, no government, be technically far right?

[outlaw]

When I lived in Italy during the 1960's, anyone over the age of about 40 was an adult during Mussolini's rule. I got a sense they didn't like it much since they sure were happy the allies liberated them.