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[[File: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>]]

[[File: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]].  Under typical Marxist socialism, the workers rise up and seize the means of production. Under a fascist system, a socialist regime allows the means of production to remain in private capitalists and oligarchs' hands - provided that they lend support to the socialist regime. Additionally, the socialist regime can extend monopoly protection to the businesses by guaranteeing government contracts, and regulatory practices designed to drive competitors out of business.

'''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]].  Under typical Marxist socialism, the workers rise up and seize the means of production. Under a fascist system, a socialist regime allows the means of production to remain in private oligarchs' hands - provided that they lend support to the socialist regime. Additionally, the socialist regime can extend monopoly protection to the businesses by guaranteeing government contracts, and regulatory practices designed to drive competitors out of business.

Fascism is an unholy alliance between [[monopoly]] capitalist enterprises and government. It is basically a set of economic policy prescriptions, although the word gained somewhat of a twisted meaning during World War II related to racism and prejudice because of its acceptance in [[Nazi Germany]] by [[Adolf Hitler]].  It stands in contrast to communism, which is outright expropriation of "the means of production", i.e. expropriation of [[private property]], and then the government itself selecting managers and unqualified party bureaucrats to run the businesses.  In a fascist regime, large corporations retain their private ownership, their profits, the ability to select their own managers and staff, and even are protected from competition provided that the corporation bends to the government's wishes.   

Fascism is an unholy alliance between [[monopoly]] capitalist enterprises and government. It is basically a set of economic policy prescriptions, although the word gained somewhat of a twisted meaning during World War II related to racism and prejudice because of its acceptance in [[Nazi Germany]] by [[Adolf Hitler]].  It stands in contrast to communism, which is outright expropriation of "the means of production", i.e. expropriation of [[private property]], and then the government itself selecting managers and unqualified party bureaucrats to run the businesses.  In a fascist regime, large corporations retain their private ownership, their profits, the ability to select their own managers and staff, and even are protected from competition provided that the corporation bends to the government's wishes.