Although Italian fascism is the second most studied form of fascism, I’m personally very interested in fascism’s Romanian variant. While lacking some of the aspects of fascism in other nations presented in this series of blog posts, Romanian fascism mimics others in particularly intense forms. Beliefs of Romanian Fascism One of these was its focus […]
Month: January 2019
The Martin Luther King Holiday
For those of us who remember personally or have read and studied about Dr. King’s life and legacy, it is an amazing story of American courage and perseverance. It is fitting, perhaps, that the story of why we have a Martin Luther King holiday dedicated to his memory is also a story worth telling. Congress […]
What German Fascism Adds to the Witch’s Brew
German fascism is the most notorious of all for its destructive actions, and rightly so. It is time, then, to examine what Germany added to the basic beliefs of fascism described in my last blog. Heading the list is the idea of scapegoating enemies for the problems of society. Of course, Jewish people headed this […]
Fascism’s Core Beliefs – What Are Its Dominant Values and Ideas?
So far, I’ve described some of the ideas of fascism and how it related (usually negatively) to the other philosophies of government and society of the 1920s and 1930s. In this post I’d like to examine some of fascism’s core beliefs that most fascist movements shared. I hope that fascism’s belief in the importance of […]