What even is fascism?

For the health and well being of the nation and people

>They are German and we are English, therefore our views and our methods on many subjects will be different. In this particular we possess a great Empire comprising many different races. They possess no such Empire, and their aim is a revived German race, geographically united. We believe profoundly in our own British race which has created the Empire, but we know also it would be bad for the Empire to stigmatise by law other races within it as inferior or outcast
>Fascism is the name by which the modern Movement has come to be known in the world. It would have been possible to avoid
>misrepresentation by calling our Movement by another name. But it was more honest to call it Fascism and thus to let everyone know exactly where we stood. It is up to us to defeat misrepresentation by propaganda and explanation of the real policy and methods of Fascism as it will operate in Britain. In the long run straightforward dealing is not only honest but also pays best. The alternative name for the modern Movement is the National Socialism used in Germany. But the German Movement also is known throughout the outside world as Fascist, which is the name commonly used to describe the phenomenon of the modern Movement whether in Britain, Germany or Italy. National Socialism and Fascism in my view are the same Movement, finding different expressions in different countries in accord with different national and racial characteristics. For seven years in the Labour Party before founding Fascism in Britain, I fought for a National Socialist Policy in contradistinction to the International Socialism of that Party.
>>Oswald Mosley (1936) Fascism: 100 questions asked and answered

>>886862
he still doesnt tell me what fascism is gb

>>886904
It's a mode of operation

>>886904
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm

>>886840
Both fascists and anti-fascists bend the definition so much that it's basically meaningless. It's a 'I know it when I see it' type of thing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rMpEYuLckI

tl;dw: A form of government in which the state controls all aspects of an individuals life to prevent moral degeneracy and indecency. This extends to industries which are privately owned but only if they positively affect the moral lives of people.

>>886840
totalitariansm of the center.

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>It's this fucking thread again

>[Fascism] was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

As vague and wishy washy as Mosley's definition of fascism was, it works since fascism itself was rather wishy washy. The definitions stressing government of action probably are the most accurate in expressing one of the the universal tenets of fascism, along with ironically a rejection of internationalism, fascism was dedicated to creating a national programme and ideology, rather than an intermational one following strict principles worldwide, though the idea was lost with many who adopted the mantle of fascism. Just look at the 1934 'Fascist international', the Italian Fascist Party, and Falange announced no official representatives, and no members of the British Union of Fascists attended. The accepted definition of Fascism as authoritarian, Conservative, nationalism generally comes from the domiance of Nazism in 'Fascist' circles during and after the war, Hitler managing to exert pressure over Italy to enforce the 1940 racial laws being a classic example, fascism has died off (with some like Mosley the last of the original generation saying fascism outright died and lost its usefulness following the war) and National Socialism having largely taken its place as a new more intentionalist (often associated with white nationalism rather than traditional nationalism and often expressing pan-European nationalism and the aggressive expansion of Nazi Germany elsewhere), Fascism is difficult to define dud to most fascist intellectuals writing on a national basis rather than international, but there's definetely a decent explanation out there.