How is a fascist government managed, and what are the advantages over democracy?

Question

Experts welcome.
Please view the question in a country oriented question (communal) rather than from an individualist view. ONLY FASCISM ADVANTAGES OVER DEMOCRACY, not viceversa. How is economy managed? Policies?...
It would be great if you examplify Hitler's and Mussolini fascist government. Thank you.

Answer 1

many scholars and commentators use the term "fascist" much more broadly, to refer to all groups that share certain characteristics, including contempt for democracy and liberty, extreme nationalism (or ethnocentrism), and pursuit of a totalitarian state. Such groups often couch their totalitarian projects in calls for national, cultural, or ethnic "renewal"--though the good old days for which fascists wax nostalgic are often more myth than history.

Fascism's Founding Father

It's repugnant stuff. But the earliest fascists didn't apologize for it--not even when they were heaping scorn on things like freedom, voting, and peace.

Take fascism's founding father: Benito Mussolini, who inspired Adolf Hitler before playing second fiddle to him. Mussolini seized power in Italy in 1922, and ruled as dictator until World War II brought him down. He coined the term "fascism" in 1919, from the Italian fascio, meaning "union" or "league," and the Latin fasces, a bundle of sticks strapped to an ax--the ancient Roman symbol of authority and penal power. In 1932, Mussolini co-wrote a 6,000-word entry on fascism for an Italian encyclopedia. Here's what that article says.

On Fascist "Spirituality"

"Fascism sees in the world not only those superficial, material aspects in which man appears as an individual, standing by himself, self-centered . . . it sees . . . the nation and the country; individuals and generations bound together by a moral law, with common traditions and a mission which, suppressing the instinct for life closed in a brief circle of pleasure, builds up a higher life, founded on duty, a life free from the limitations of time and space, in which the individual, by self-sacrifice, the renunciation of self-interest, by death itself, can achieve that purely spiritual existence in which his value as a man consists."


"In the Fascist conception of history, man is man only by virtue of the spiritual process to which he contributes as a member of the family, the social group, the nation."
On Fascist "Inclusiveness"

"The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State--a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values--interprets, develops, and invigorates the whole life of a people."


"[Fascism] aims at refashioning not only the forms of life but their content--man, his character, and his faith. To achieve this purpose it enforces discipline and uses authority, entering into the soul and ruling with undisputed sway."
On Fascist "Liberty"

"Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State."


"Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual. Fascism reasserts the rights of the State as expressing the real essence of the individual. And if liberty is to be the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism, then Fascism stands for liberty, and for the only liberty worth having, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State."
On Fascist "Democracy"

"Fascism trains its guns on the whole block of democratic ideologies, and rejects both their premises and their practical applications and implements. Fascism denies that numbers can be the determining factor in human society; it denies the right of numbers to govern by means of periodical consultations; it asserts the irremediable and fertile and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage."


"Fascism is . . . opposed to that form of democracy which equates a nation to the majority, lowering it to the level of the largest number."
On Fascist "Diplomacy"

"The Fascist State expresses the will to exercise power and to command. . . . Fascism sees in the imperialistic spirit--that is, in the tendency of nations to expand--a manifestation of their vitality. In the op posite tendency, which would limit their interests to the home country, it sees a symptom of decadence."


"Fascism does not, generally speaking, believe in the possibility or utility of perpetual peace. It therefore discards pacifism as a cloak for cowardly supine renuncia tion in contradistinction to self-sacrifice. War alone keys up all human energies to their maximum tension and sets the seal of nobility on those peoples who have the courage to face it."

Answer 2

Well I see a good deal of political commentary among your various respondants but racism aside, a fascist government is organized on the theory that government should be run by representatives of the various centers of power in the state. A ruling council for example, might include industrial magnates, union chiefs, religious leaders, military commanders and so on. By recognizing the existing centers of power and incorporating them into the government structure directly one can theoretically achieve more rapid consensus on matters, for example, reorganizing for a war footing or disaster relief. Of course, the corrollary problem is that power tends to be centralized in very few hands and corruption and abuse can offset the potential advantages.

Answer 3

The term 'fascist' is almost as badly used as communist.' In blunt reality Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy were Socialist-Dictatorships. Just as North Korea and Cuba are Socialist-Dictatorship. The biggest advantage to being a Socialist-Dictatorship is that One Man stands supreme and takes credit for all accomplishments while fobbing failure off on others. The government itself is a linear bureaucracy. Ultimately One Man says yea or nay. Instead of poltical parties jokeying for power and forging alliances against The Leader, there was in Fascist Germany only one party, The Nazi Party, it was a gradual process but by the mid 1930's in Germany all Aryan Citizens were considered to be 'of the State,' they worked for the State, in whatever industry, and in turn The State provided them with roads & services and in time glory in war followed by the stagnation of war and ultimately failure. The chief advantage for any dictatorship is not having to answer to the electorate every couple of years but don't wory democracies eventually figure out ways around that symbling block.

On the economic side - - - read 'The Devils Dseciples' by a man named Read - - - In Fascist Germany, Herman Goring was put in charge of Industry. He could command industrial leaders to consult with him, they would have to obey his edicts, there was polite chatter but ultimately Goring's decisions were obeyed. In a Fascist State dissent means jail. All that is produced within a State belongs to the State. One of the reasons why Germany went to war was to steal the assets of other nations. They plundered their neighbors. That is a solid example of what many mean when the use the term 'Fascist.'
Others use to term to mean strictly regimented, pursuing policies smacking of bigotry & hated - - - these were merely tools the Nazis used to keep their citizens on the hop.

Things were much different in Italy. Mussolini could be brutal but mostly he was a strutting peacock who merely wanted to be Il Duce, The Boss. His view of fascism was that of a one party State bureacracy that efficiently managed the countries resources. Sometimes he succeeded - - - then he fell in with the Hitler Gang and everything went south.

Answer 4

Zealotry's no longer a distinctive feature. you're gonna desire more effective than some exclamation factors to sway minds. you're those putting each and each of the ability in the fingers of the authorities. you imagine they make Westerners devour themselves into weight problems, set off apathy, and stress irresponsible consumerism? Nah, it is the human beings who've were given the f--relatives individuals' complications. and also you recognize what their best difficulty is? Freedom. Heads do not recognize what to do with it-- they squander it and then go searching on the international they have destroyed and cry, "the authorities! the authorities!" in the adventure that that they had stricter regulations, more effective responsibility and a lot less skill to take advantage themselves and others, we'd want to all be more effective efficient off. Freedom's no longer the answer, it is the project.

Answer 5

They say in Nazi Germany, the trains always ran on time. Democracy is messy and inefficient, but I wouldn't want it any other way.

Here's hoping someone can bring real democracy back to the U.S.! "Freedom is on the move!"

Answer 6

fascist --> few people in power get to steal money
democracy --> more people get money