this is what you get when you google "definition of fascism" and click on the first result:
An extreme form of nationalism that played on fears of communism and rejected individual freedom, liberal individualism, democracy, and limitations on the state.
www.nelson.com/nelson/polisci/glossary.html
political philosophy or movement that places the nation or the race above the individual and that stands for highly centralized government led by a dictator; belief in militarism, racism, and nationalism; opposition to democracy and human rights.
web.isp.cz/jcrane/Glossary.html
An ideology that advocates extreme nationalism, with a heightened sense of national belonging or ethnic identity.
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007248179x/student_view0/glossary.html
centralized authority regimenting commerce and people; citizens are allowed to hold a piece of paper (land title, business license, central bank note, birth certificate) fooling them into thinking they have property ownership, then the "owners" are heavily regulated and taxed.
www.stormy.org/defin.htm
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
www.taprootgop.org/definiti.htm
Political philosophy that became predominant in Italy and then Germany during the 1920s and 1930s; attacked weakness of democracy, corruption of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs; undertook state control of economy to reduce social friction. (p. 870)
occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stearns_awl/medialib/glossary/gloss_F.html
n. any political or social ideology which relies on a combination of psuedo-religious attitudes and the brutal use of force for getting and keeping power
www.jeanchretien.net/data/0055.html
form or practice of government where decisions are made in secrecy, which can be maintained by force or by a press entity with conflicting interests
ajewell.sytes.net/www/gloss.html
A nationalist, anti-Communist and authoritarian political system evolved by Mussolini and his followers in Italy after 1922.
apella.ac-limoges.fr/lyc-perrier-tulle/europ/glossary/glossideo.htm
A political system that emphasizes nationalism, militarism, and anti- communist and totalitarian rule. Individuals are allowed to retain ownership of capital goods but are subject to centralized control.
www.cbe.ab.ca/b836/curriculum/social/socialgloss.html
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