9. The weak are contemptible and society should be hierarchical 10. Only blind obedience can be tolerated 11. Only a charismatic leader can interpret the will of the people Furthermore, Eco identifies a few strategies fascist movements use to garner followers:History...
fascism,political ideologyand mass movement that dominated many parts of central, southern, and eastern Europe between 1919 and 1945 and that also had adherents in western Europe, theUnited States,South Africa,Japan, Latin America, and theMiddle East. Europe’s first fascist leader,Benito Mussolini...
totalitarianism, form ofgovernmentthat theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to theauthorityof thestate. ItaliandictatorBenito Mussolinicoined the termtotalitarioin the early 1920s to characterize the newfasciststate of Italy, which he fu...
1 of 2 Third ReichAdolf Hitler addressing a rally in Germany, c. 1933.(more) 2 of 2 Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin, 1950.(more) The communist and fascist dictatorships that arose in various technologically advanced countries in the first half of the 20th century were distinctively different from ...
The Civil War decimated Spanish intellectuals, artists, and writers, and the country’s culture went into decline, uninterrupted by a brief spate of triunfalismo (“triumphalism”) that lasted through the 1940s, when the victorious Falange, the Spanish fascist party, engaged in propagandistic self...