Fascism Is a Totalitarian Philosophy Essay

In general the middle class was driven by despair especially due to inflation that was galloping and economic crisis was becoming an ideological crisis. There was a discredit towards parliamentary democracy, economic policy that was liberal and a society of industrial development was now on the verge of breaking out in Europe. Therefore with the stable equilibrium from 1920 there was fragility of the democratic system and therefore adherents of authoritarian regimes aimed to overthrow the liberal governments that were in existence.

In parallel with the fear of proletarianization as well as lack of any ideological guidance, authoritarian as well as nationalistic movements emerged that pressed for the sedition of the liberal democracies that were newly formed which was an endeavor that was carried into effect for dictatorial and anti-liberal regimes. There was also the increasing disentrancement as well as accusations that the government was leveled against about economic scandals and hence all these factors led to the rise of fascism. The first fascist state to develop was Italy after the first world war while Austria, Germany and Spain went ahead to develop fascist governments during the inter-war period.Authoritarian regimes lacked ideological substratum and their aim was just to rectify state of affairs this is in contrast to Fascism, it possessed an ideology that was firm, which saw the declaration total obedience of individuals and values to the will of a fascist state that was mighty with authority that was infallible and indisputable.

Fascism was highly accepted first the middle class accepted it since they held great value to property and they feared to lose their property through unemployment and inflation which is the source of insecurity that fascism feeds upon. Another reason why ordinary people accept fascism is the fact that there is a lot of propaganda and hence they are easily persuaded and it acquires mass support (What-when-how, 2010.The use of radio and newspapers to spread the propaganda is effective as a reasonable percentage of the society is reached and therefore they are convinced and fully support fascism.

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