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Fasc<strong>is</strong>m<br />
Nowadays when people speak of fasc<strong>is</strong>m, they speak of Naz<strong>is</strong><br />
and jack boots, Mussolini, and Franco.<br />
Classical fasc<strong>is</strong>m gained a mass base among the ruined<br />
middle classes in Europe after the First World War, when economic<br />
cr<strong>is</strong><strong>is</strong>, especi<strong>all</strong>y in Germany and Italy, drove millions to<br />
look for a strong leader. In Germany, an attempt to carry out a<br />
workers’ revolution in 1918 had failed. Fasc<strong>is</strong>t demagogues, using<br />
anti-capital<strong>is</strong>t rhetoric, deflected mass anger into extreme<br />
national<strong>is</strong>m and the scapegoating of minorities. They violently<br />
broke up workers’ organizations, attacking commun<strong>is</strong>ts and social<strong>is</strong>ts.<br />
Eventu<strong>all</strong>y the fasc<strong>is</strong>ts got the support from big capital<br />
that they needed to take over the capital<strong>is</strong>t state, laying the bas<strong>is</strong><br />
for a second imperial<strong>is</strong>t world war.<br />
Fasc<strong>is</strong>m <strong>is</strong> an extreme right-wing form of capital<strong>is</strong>t rule.<br />
Fasc<strong>is</strong>t ideologies still ex<strong>is</strong>t in different forms in most capital<strong>is</strong>t<br />
countries and in former colonies that are ruled <strong>by</strong> puppet<br />
regimes. In the U.S., fasc<strong>is</strong>m <strong>is</strong> closely linked to the ideology<br />
of white supremacy and shows itself in many institutions and<br />
cultural tendencies.<br />
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