FASCISM Fascism is a political system characterized by totalitarianism and a complete rejection of democratic institutions, values and procedures. The basic institutions made use of by fascism are the Leader (or dictator), the one-party state, total regimentation of economic and social activities and the arbitrary use of governmental power. Almost all economic activity is controlled and regulated by the government for the political ends of the state. Fascism has no particular economic or social theory. …
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…and was one of the main ideologues of Nazism. In his book, Myth of the Twentieth Century, published in 1930, he asserted the right of Nordic Germans to conquer and rule the inferior peoples, such as the Jews, Slavs and Latin peoples. Freedoms were suspended, political opposition suppressed and punished, and stringent legislation was passed against Jews and other minority groups. Hitler also mounted a military campaign and prepared for war for the prestige of Germany.