| | [[Image:Road to serfdom.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Friedrich Hayek]]'s ''Road to Serfdom'' outlines the origins of Fascism and other totalitarian ideologies.<ref>F.A. Hayek, [https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/upldrelease93pdf.pdf Reader's Digest condensed version of ''The Road to Serfdom'']</ref>]] | | [[Image:Road to serfdom.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Friedrich Hayek]]'s ''Road to Serfdom'' outlines the origins of Fascism and other totalitarian ideologies.<ref>F.A. Hayek, [https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/upldrelease93pdf.pdf Reader's Digest condensed version of ''The Road to Serfdom'']</ref>]] |
| − | '''Fascism''' is a [[big government]], [[totalitarian]], economic, political, and [[statist]] [[ideology]] that arose in early twentieth century [[Europe]] and came to dominate the social and political systems of [[Italy]] under [[Benito Mussolini]] and [[Germany]] under [[Adolf Hitler]]. Fascism is [[statist]] in nature, relying on a public-private partnership of big [[government]] spending and "[[crony capitalism]]" while being openly hostile towards small business competition and conventional [[religion]]. In 21st century America, various [[Neo-Nazi]] groups], and other far right, racist extremists, embody the oppressive [[single party control|single party aims]] of fascism. | + | '''Fascism''' is a [[big government]], [[totalitarian]], economic, political, and [[statist]] [[ideology]] that arose in early twentieth century [[Europe]] and came to dominate the social and political systems of [[Italy]] under [[Benito Mussolini]] and [[Germany]] under [[Adolf Hitler]]. Fascism is [[statist]] in nature, relying on a public-private partnership of big [[government]] spending and "[[crony capitalism]]" while being openly hostile towards small business competition and conventional [[religion]]. In 21st century America, the [[Democratic party]] has come to embody the oppressive [[single party control|single party aims]] of fascism in the [[United States]]. |
| | Conservatives are opposed to Fascism, favoring the individual over the state. Mussolini described Fascism this way: | | Conservatives are opposed to Fascism, favoring the individual over the state. Mussolini described Fascism this way: |