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Discuss the main characteristics of Fascism.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Fascism, unlike communism, never produced a systematic founding theorist, making its characteristics best read off the movements' actual practice — above all Mussolini's Italy, the paradigm case.

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  • Extreme Nationalism and Primacy of the State
  • Authoritarian One-Party Rule and the Leader Cult
  • Totalitarian Control and Anti-Communism
  • Corporatism and Economic Self-Sufficiency
  • Militarism, Social Darwinism, and Radicalism
  • Mass Propaganda and Mobilization

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