I want to clarify Fascism vs Nazism upfront. Both are movements that are intensely sinister and steeped in hatred. However, there are precise differences. While Nazism believes in the superiority of the Aryan Race and the inferiority of the Jews and other groups. Fascism places everything below the state or nation, whether it is an individual or spiritual belief, with no racial discrimination.
Fascism revolves around a ruler who uses absolute power to suppress the individual freedom of citizens, making the citizen a subject of the power of the State. This is achieved by fascism using violent methods for political ends. In the context of a fascist government, this often involves the State using the military against citizens.
The Italian term fascismo is derived from fascio, meaning—a bundle of sticks—ultimately from the Latin word fasces. This was the name given to political organizations in Italy known as fasci, groups similar to guilds or syndicates. According to Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s account, the Fasces of Revolutionary Action were founded in Italy in 1915. In 1919—Mussolini founded the Italian Fasces of Combat in Milan, which became the National Fascist Party two years later. The Fascists came to associate the term with the ancient Roman fasces or fascio littorio, a bundle of rods tied around an axe.
There were also Fascists outside of Italy. British politician Oswald Mosley was a great admirer of Mussolini.
After his election failure in 1931, Mosley went on a study tour of the new movements of Italy’s Benito Mussolini and other fascists. He returned convinced, particularly by the Fascist Italian economic program, that it was the way forward for Britain. He was determined to unite the existing fascist movements and created the British Union of Fascists.
Irish politician O’Duffy was also an admirer of Benito Mussolini, and The Blueshirts—the nickname of the political party Fine Gael, adopted corporatism as a chief political aim. They imitated some aspects of the Mussolini movement, such as the coloured-shirt uniform and the Roman salute.
Fine Gael has since left its fascist past behind, it is currently one of the coalition parties in the Irish government.
The word origin of Nazism was taken from the name of the Nazi party, which is an abbreviation of the NSDAP—Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist Workers Party). This ideology believed that the Aryans were pureblood meant the Jews and other groups like Freemasons and Roma-Sinti were anti-national. They also persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses and the LGBT community, predominantly homosexuals. Their belief in keeping the Aryan race pure was to eliminate or sterilize people with disabilities.
Adolf Hitler joined the tiny German Workers’ Party, founded in January 1919 in his adopted city, Munich. It was one of many nationalist groups opposing the democratic and socialist revolutions that swept Germany after World War I. He rapidly became the party’s leading figure. Late in 1920, it changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers (or Nazi) Party.
The word socialist in its name made people assume that it was a socialist party. The NSDAP struggled with the political implications of having socialism in the party name. Some early Nazi leaders, such as Gregor and Otto Strasser, appealed to working-class resentments, hoping to attract German workers from their links to existing socialist and communist parties. The NSDAP’s 1920 party program had 25 points, which included passages denouncing banks, department stores and “interest slavery,” which suggested a quasi-Marxist rejection of free markets. However, these were also typical criticisms in the anti-Semitic playbook, which provided a glimpse of the party’s overriding ideology it wasn’t a fundamental challenge to private property.
Nazism had peculiarly German roots. It can be partly traced to the Prussian tradition as developed under Frederick William I (1688–1740), Frederick the Great (1712–68), and Otto von Bismarck (1815–98), which regarded the militant spirit and the discipline of the Prussian army as the model for all individual and civic life. To it was added the tradition of political romanticism, with its sharp hostility to rationalism and to the principles underlying the French Revolution, its emphasis on instinct and the past, and its proclamation of the rights of Friedrich Nietzsche’s exceptional individual (the Übermensch [“Superior man”]) overall universal law and rules. These two traditions were later reinforced by the 19th-century adoration of science and the laws of nature, which seemed to operate independently of all concepts of good and evil. Further reinforcements came from such 19th-century intellectual figures as the Comte de Gobineau (1816–82), Richard Wagner (1813–83), and Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), all of whom greatly influenced early Nazism with their claims of the racial and cultural superiority of the “Nordic” (Germanic) peoples over all other Europeans and all other races.
Hitler’s intellectual viewpoint was influenced during his youth not only by these currents in the German tradition but also by specific Austrian movements that professed various political sentiments, notably those of pan-Germanic expansionism and anti-Semitism. Hitler’s ferocious nationalism, his contempt of Slavs, and his hatred of Jews can largely be explained by his bitter experiences as an unsuccessful artist living a threadbare existence on the streets of Vienna, the capital of the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire.
There were National Socialist parties outside of Germany, for example, the NSB in the Netherlands.
The NSB (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging-National Socialist Movement) was founded in Utrecht in 1931, a period of time when several nationalist, fascist and Nazi parties rose up. The founders were Anton Mussert, who became the party’s leader, and Cornelis van Geelkerken. The party based its program on Italian fascism and German Nazism: however, unlike the latter, before 1936, the party was not anti-Semitic and even had Jewish members.
Nazism and Fascism are related—you might say they are cousins. However, the distinct differences were they played a major part in the Holocaust. However, it should not be forgotten that both movements—were a consequence of—extreme socialism, liberalism and communism.
What amazes me is that no lessons have been learned. The 2020s are nearly a carbon copy of the 1920s.
Sources
https://byjusexamprep.com/upsc-exam/fascism-vs-nazism#toc-4
This was not because he was a bad violinist, in fact he was one of the best in Austria, he was fired for being Jewish. He had served 35 years with the Orchestra devoting his life to his art and the orchestra.
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