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	'''Fascism''' is a [[Counterrevolution\|counter-revolutionary]] [[reactionary]] movement led by finance [[capital]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Georgi Dimitrov\|year=1935\|title=The fascist offensive and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle of the working class against fascism\|chapter=The class character of fascism\|page=\|quote=No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. '''Fascism is the power of finance capital itself'''. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia.\|pdf=\|city=\|publisher=Main Report delivered at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International\|isbn=\|doi=\|lg=\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm\|title-url=\|chapter-url=\|trans-title=\|trans-lang=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|title=Encyclopedia of Marxism\|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/a.htm#fascism}}</ref> and a form of [[dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]] which emerged during periods of [[economic crisis]] in [[Imperialism\|imperialist]] countries.<ref>{{Citation\|author=William I. Robinson\|year=2019\|title=Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype\|quote=Fascism, whether in its classical 20th-century form or possible variants of 21st-century neo-fascism, is a particular response to capitalist crisis, such as that of the 1930s and the one that began with the financial meltdown of 2008. Global capitalism is facing an organic crisis involving an intractable structural dimension, that of overaccumulation, and a political dimension, that of legitimacy or hegemony that is approaching a general crisis of capitalist rule.\|publisher=Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183\|doi=10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155}}</ref> In other words, fascism is [[capitalism]] in decay.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Rajani Palme Dutt]]\|year=1935\|title=Fascism and Social Revolution\|chapter=Preface to the Second Edition\|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fascismandsocial0000rpal/page/n15/mode/2up\|page=xiv\|location=London\|publisher=Martin Lawrence LTD\|quote=Fascism is not merely the expression of a particular movement, of a particular party within modern society, but that it is the most complete expression of the whole tendency of modern capitalism in decay, as the final attempt to defeat the working-class revolution and organise society on the basis of decay.}}</ref> The [[Communist International (1919–1943)\|Third International]] described fascism as the "open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most [[Chauvinism\|chauvinistic]], and most imperialist elements of finance capital."<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Georgi Dimitrov]]\|year=1935\|title=The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism\|chapter=Fascism and the Working Class\|quote=Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm}}</ref>		'''Fascism''' is a [[Counterrevolution\|counter-revolutionary]] [[reactionary]] movement led by finance [[capital]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Georgi Dimitrov\|year=1935\|title=The fascist offensive and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle of the working class against fascism\|chapter=The class character of fascism\|page=\|quote=No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. '''Fascism is the power of finance capital itself'''. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia.\|pdf=\|city=\|publisher=Main Report delivered at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International\|isbn=\|doi=\|lg=\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm\|title-url=\|chapter-url=\|trans-title=\|trans-lang=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|title=Encyclopedia of Marxism\|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/a.htm#fascism}}</ref> and a form of [[dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]] which emerged during periods of [[economic crisis]] in [[Imperialism\|imperialist]] countries.<ref>{{Citation\|author=William I. Robinson\|year=2019\|title=Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype\|quote=Fascism, whether in its classical 20th-century form or possible variants of 21st-century neo-fascism, is a particular response to capitalist crisis, such as that of the 1930s and the one that began with the financial meltdown of 2008. Global capitalism is facing an organic crisis involving an intractable structural dimension, that of overaccumulation, and a political dimension, that of legitimacy or hegemony that is approaching a general crisis of capitalist rule.\|publisher=Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183\|doi=10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155}}</ref> In other words, fascism is [[capitalism]] in decay.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Rajani Palme Dutt]]\|year=1935\|title=Fascism and Social Revolution\|chapter=Preface to the Second Edition\|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fascismandsocial0000rpal/page/n15/mode/2up\|page=xiv\|location=London\|publisher=Martin Lawrence LTD\|quote=Fascism is not merely the expression of a particular movement, of a particular party within modern society, but that it is the most complete expression of the whole tendency of modern capitalism in decay, as the final attempt to defeat the working-class revolution and organise society on the basis of decay.}}</ref> The [[Communist International (1919–1943)\|Third International]] described fascism as the "open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most [[Chauvinism\|chauvinistic]], and most imperialist elements of finance capital."<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Georgi Dimitrov]]\|year=1935\|title=The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism\|chapter=Fascism and the Working Class\|quote=Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm}}</ref>

	Fascism abolishes [[bourgeois democracy]] without abolishing bourgeois rule itself. In contrast, [[socialism]] abolishes both in order to create a [[~~Democratic centralism~~\|more substantive form of democracy]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]\|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]\|title=This Is Not Populism\|date=2017-06-01\|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718012353/https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-date=2023-07-18}}</ref>		Fascism abolishes [[bourgeois democracy]] without abolishing bourgeois rule itself. In contrast, [[socialism]] abolishes both in order to create a [[Dictatorship of the proletariat\|more substantive form of democracy]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]\|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]\|title=This Is Not Populism\|date=2017-06-01\|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718012353/https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-date=2023-07-18}}</ref>

	Fascism usually promotes policies that favor the ever-expanding domination of capital. Its political aspect is marked by pervasive [[anti-communism]], a profound aversion towards [[democracy]], the justification and glorification of [[class society]] through [[class collaboration]], and chauvinistic tendencies, namely reactionary [[nationalism]], [[racism]], [[sexism]], [[xenophobia]], [[transphobia]] and [[ableism]]. Fascist ideologues usually promote [[Conspiracy theory\|conspiracy theories]], irrational myths and manipulative distortions of truth to gather support of their popular base.		Fascism usually promotes policies that favor the ever-expanding domination of capital. Its political aspect is marked by pervasive [[anti-communism]], a profound aversion towards [[democracy]], the justification and glorification of [[class society]] through [[class collaboration]], and chauvinistic tendencies, namely reactionary [[nationalism]], [[racism]], [[sexism]], [[xenophobia]], [[transphobia]] and [[ableism]]. Fascist ideologues usually promote [[Conspiracy theory\|conspiracy theories]], irrational myths and manipulative distortions of truth to gather support of their popular base.

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	The Nazi Party was beaten into dissolution by the [[Soviet Union]] after the Battle of Berlin in May 1945.		The Nazi Party was beaten into dissolution by the [[Soviet Union]] after the Battle of Berlin in May 1945.

			=== Greek fascism ===
			{{Main article\|Hellenic Republic#Military junta (1967–1974)}}

			In 1967, a coup d’etat in Greece established a military-fascist junta that lasted until 1974.<ref name=":1">{{Citation\|author=A. A. Galkin\|year=1977\|chapter=Fascism\|chapter-url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Fascism\|title=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (3rd ed.)\|volume=27\|page=222-224\|city=Moscow\|pdf=https://ia804601.us.archive.org/2/items/B-001-032-507-748-ALL/БСЭ_3изд_т27_604.pdf\|trans-title=Boljšaja sovjetskaja enciklopjedija\|trans-lang=Russian}}</ref>

	=== Portuguese fascism ===		=== Portuguese fascism ===
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	===Spanish fascism ===		===Spanish fascism ===
	Following the victory of the Spanish [[Popular Front]] in 1936, a fascist revolt led by [[Francisco Franco]] broke out, whose ambitions were assisted by invading Germany and Italy, and silently backed by the rest of the allies. A [[Spanish Civil War\|civil war]] lasting three years followed, culminating in the crushing of Republican forces. The regime went on to last three more decades, and it is said that the current "reformed" Spanish state is a continuation of the same regime. Notably, Franco reintroduced the king of Spain in 1956 (whose parent was deposed in 1931). To this day, Spain remains a monarchy.		Following the victory of the Spanish [[Popular Front]] in 1936, a fascist revolt led by [[Francisco Franco]] broke out, whose ambitions were assisted by invading Germany and Italy, and silently backed by the rest of the allies. A [[Spanish Civil War\|civil war]] lasting three years followed, culminating in the crushing of Republican forces.<ref name=":1" /> The regime went on to last three more decades, and it is said that the current "reformed" Spanish state is a continuation of the same regime. Notably, Franco reintroduced the king of Spain in 1956 (whose parent was deposed in 1931). To this day, Spain remains a monarchy.

	=== British Fascism ===		=== British Fascism ===
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	=== United States ===		=== United States ===

	[[File:USA capital photo jan. 2021.jpg\|thumb\|Many neo-fascist groups were involved in the [[2021 United States Capitol riot\|2021 United States Capitol coup attempt.]]]]		[[File:USA capital photo jan. 2021.jpg\|thumb\|Many neo-fascist groups were involved in the [[2021 United States Capitol riot\|2021 United States Capitol coup attempt.]]]]

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	A cult of personality developed around multi-billionaire president [[Donald Trump]], whose rise to infamy was cheered on by a wave of reactionary nationalism, xenophobia, and populism. Such trends were marked by increased membership in neo-fascist paramilitary groups such as the [[Proud Boys]], [[Three Percenters]], and [[Oath Keepers\|Oathkeepers]].		A cult of personality developed around multi-billionaire president [[Donald Trump]], whose rise to infamy was cheered on by a wave of reactionary nationalism, xenophobia, and populism. Such trends were marked by increased membership in neo-fascist paramilitary groups such as the [[Proud Boys]], [[Three Percenters]], and [[Oath Keepers\|Oathkeepers]].

	Trump’s ~~rule~~ ended in an [[2021 United States Capitol riot\|attempted putsch of the American government]], mainly done by the Far-right paramilitary groups mentioned above. The putsch (often referred to in the capitalist media as the “Jan. 6 insurrection" or riot), was motivated by false conspiracy theories about the [[2020 United States presidential election\|2020 election]] being rigged in favor of the [[Democratic Party (United States)\|Democrats]], as well as Trump’s personal agitation.		Trump’s first term ended in an [[2021 United States Capitol riot\|attempted putsch of the American government]], mainly done by the Far-right paramilitary groups mentioned above. The putsch (often referred to in the capitalist media as the “Jan. 6 insurrection" or riot), was motivated by false conspiracy theories about the [[2020 United States presidential election\|2020 election]] being rigged in favor of the [[Democratic Party (United States)\|Democrats]], as well as Trump’s personal agitation.

			Donald Trump took power again after the [[2024 United States presidential election\|2024 election]], starting a second term. At his side as vice president is [[JD Vance]], a pupil of billionare [[Peter Thiel]] and disciple of [[Curtis Yarvin]], the latter of whom advocates for the United States being under a "national [[CEO]], [or] what's called a [[dictator]]."<ref name=":2">{{Web citation\|author=Stephanie Pavlick\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Meet Peter Thiel: The tech billionaire influencing top members of the Trump administration\|date=2024-12-06\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/peter-thiel-tech-billionaire-influencing-top-members-trump-administration/}}</ref> Thiel, another disciple of Yarvin's, has built a large network of tech billionaires whose goal is to turn the United States into an explicit corporatocracy. Through Vance, they have tremendous influence in the White House.<ref name=":2" />

	=== Latin America ===		=== Latin America ===
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	===Japanese fascism===		===Japanese fascism===
	Japanese fascism, also known as Shōwa Statism, was based on a number of [[imperialist]] and [[Ultranationalism\|ultranationalist]] political ideas from various Japanese thinkers. Japanese fascism manifested itself in extreme militarism, monarchism, and expansionism in [[Asia]].		Japanese fascism, also known as Shōwa Statism, was based on a number of [[imperialist]] and [[Ultranationalism\|ultranationalist]] political ideas from various Japanese thinkers. Japan became a fully fascist state in 1940 and remained that way until they surrendered in 1945.<ref>{{Citation\|year=1978\|chapter=Japan\|chapter-url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Japan\|title=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (3rd ed.)\|volume=30\|page=516-547\|city=Moscow\|pdf=https://ia804601.us.archive.org/2/items/B-001-032-507-748-ALL/БСЭ_3изд_т30_742.pdf\|trans-title=Boljšaja sovjetskaja enciklopjedija\|trans-lang=Russian\|quote=As preparations for war proceeded, there was a dramatic upsurge of reactionary forces, and the entire socioeconomic structure of Japan became fascist in nature. Trade unions were abolished in 1940. The Imperial Rule Assistance Association was created in October 1940 to replace the political parties, which had been dissolved; headed by the prime minister, the association formed the basis of the “new political structure.” }}</ref> Japanese fascism manifested itself in extreme militarism, monarchism, and expansionism in [[Asia]].

	== Post-World War II ideological trends of fascism ==		== Post-World War II ideological trends of fascism ==

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	[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1981-052-06A, Albert Speer spricht in Munitionsfabrik.jpg\|thumb\|The Roman Salute is commonly associated with Nazis and other Fascists.]]		[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1981-052-06A, Albert Speer spricht in Munitionsfabrik.jpg\|thumb\|The Roman Salute is commonly associated with Nazis and other Fascists.]]
	'''Fascism''' is a [[Counterrevolution\|counter-revolutionary]] [[reactionary]] movement led by finance [[capital]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Georgi Dimitrov\|year=1935\|title=The fascist offensive and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle of the working class against fascism\|chapter=The class character of fascism\|page=\|quote=No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. '''Fascism is the power of finance capital itself'''. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia.\|pdf=\|city=\|publisher=Main Report delivered at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International\|isbn=\|doi=\|lg=\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm\|title-url=\|chapter-url=\|trans-title=\|trans-lang=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|title=Encyclopedia of Marxism\|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/a.htm#fascism}}</ref> and a form of [[dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]] which emerged during periods of [[economic crisis]] in [[Imperialism\|imperialist]] countries.<ref>{{Citation\|author=William I. Robinson\|year=2019\|title=Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype\|quote=Fascism, whether in its classical 20th-century form or possible variants of 21st-century neo-fascism, is a particular response to capitalist crisis, such as that of the 1930s and the one that began with the financial meltdown of 2008. Global capitalism is facing an organic crisis involving an intractable structural dimension, that of overaccumulation, and a political dimension, that of legitimacy or hegemony that is approaching a general crisis of capitalist rule.\|publisher=Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183\|doi=10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155}}</ref> The [[Communist International (1919–1943)\|Third International]] described fascism as the "open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most [[Chauvinism\|chauvinistic]], and most imperialist elements of finance capital."<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Georgi Dimitrov]]\|year=1935\|title=The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism\|chapter=Fascism and the Working Class\|quote=Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm}}</ref>		'''Fascism''' is a [[Counterrevolution\|counter-revolutionary]] [[reactionary]] movement led by finance [[capital]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Georgi Dimitrov\|year=1935\|title=The fascist offensive and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle of the working class against fascism\|chapter=The class character of fascism\|page=\|quote=No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. '''Fascism is the power of finance capital itself'''. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia.\|pdf=\|city=\|publisher=Main Report delivered at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International\|isbn=\|doi=\|lg=\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm\|title-url=\|chapter-url=\|trans-title=\|trans-lang=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|title=Encyclopedia of Marxism\|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/a.htm#fascism}}</ref> and a form of [[dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]] which emerged during periods of [[economic crisis]] in [[Imperialism\|imperialist]] countries.<ref>{{Citation\|author=William I. Robinson\|year=2019\|title=Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype\|quote=Fascism, whether in its classical 20th-century form or possible variants of 21st-century neo-fascism, is a particular response to capitalist crisis, such as that of the 1930s and the one that began with the financial meltdown of 2008. Global capitalism is facing an organic crisis involving an intractable structural dimension, that of overaccumulation, and a political dimension, that of legitimacy or hegemony that is approaching a general crisis of capitalist rule.\|publisher=Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183\|doi=10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155}}</ref> In other words, fascism is [[capitalism]] in decay.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Rajani Palme Dutt]]\|year=1935\|title=Fascism and Social Revolution\|chapter=Preface to the Second Edition\|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fascismandsocial0000rpal/page/n15/mode/2up\|page=xiv\|location=London\|publisher=Martin Lawrence LTD\|quote=Fascism is not merely the expression of a particular movement, of a particular party within modern society, but that it is the most complete expression of the whole tendency of modern capitalism in decay, as the final attempt to defeat the working-class revolution and organise society on the basis of decay.}}</ref> The [[Communist International (1919–1943)\|Third International]] described fascism as the "open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most [[Chauvinism\|chauvinistic]], and most imperialist elements of finance capital."<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Georgi Dimitrov]]\|year=1935\|title=The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism\|chapter=Fascism and the Working Class\|quote=Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm}}</ref>

	Fascism abolishes [[bourgeois democracy]] without abolishing bourgeois rule itself. In contrast, [[socialism]] abolishes both in order to create a [[Democratic centralism\|more substantive form of democracy]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]\|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]\|title=This Is Not Populism\|date=2017-06-01\|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718012353/https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-date=2023-07-18}}</ref>		Fascism abolishes [[bourgeois democracy]] without abolishing bourgeois rule itself. In contrast, [[socialism]] abolishes both in order to create a [[Democratic centralism\|more substantive form of democracy]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]\|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]\|title=This Is Not Populism\|date=2017-06-01\|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718012353/https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-date=2023-07-18}}</ref>

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	== Fascism in Europe ==		== Fascism in Europe ==

	~~1: The United States Bourgeoisie bankrolled the rise of fascism in Europe.~~

	~~2: The bourgeois leaders of England, France, Poland, Finland and other Western European nations either ignored, enabled, or appeased Hitler’s worst behavior in the buildup to WW2.~~

	3: The bourgeois leaders of these countries, England in particular, pushed for disastrous bilateral security arrangements which created a domino effect leading to war, while ignoring the USSR’s suggestion of collective, anti-fascist security arrangements.

	4: The bourgeois leaders of these countries pursued a policy not of containing fascist aggression, but of diplomatically isolating the USSR, in the hopes that Hitler would go East and carry out an anti-communist genocide on their behalf.

	5: The bourgeois leaders of these countries, having ignored or stalled collective security proposals from the USSR, actively made bilateral non-aggression pacts with Hitler before Molotov-Ribbentrop was signed, making the USSR the last in a long line of nations to sign non-aggression pacts with Hitler, after the USSR’s collective security proposals fell through.

	6: The USSR only signed Molotov-Ribbentrop to buy time. The USSR only invaded East Poland to prevent a German front from forming right at the Soviet border. This is because attempts to make mutual security arrangements with Poland fell through. The Soviets only moved into the region after the existing government had literally fled the country, leaving it ungoverned. 2 million jews in eastern poland were saved from the nazis by this action.

	7: The USSR tried to purchase a strategic corridor of land from Finland that the nazis could easily use to invade the USSR. The USSR not only wanted to legally purchase this land from Finland, but to trade Finland more acres of land in exchange. i.e. an asymmetrical trade that would have ultimately benefited Finland. Finland refused because the fascist leadership of Finland wanted to see Germany invade the USSR through this strategic corridor. This led directly to the Winter War. The Finnish lost the winter war but used their intelligence that they gathered during it to collaborate with the nazis.

	8: When the North Atlantic allies finally teamed up with USSR after their strategy of appeasing Hitler backfired, they immediately attempted to make asymmetrical security arrangements that would have obligated the USSR to commit far more troops and resources to the war than any other ally, essentially using the USSR as a shield against the very fascist powers they had spent the better part of a decade appeasing. The British in particular kept stalling on arrangements and pretending to be confused.

	9: When the war was over the North Atlantic allies, led by the USA, who came out of the war richer than any other country on Earth, immediately committed to rehabilitating nazis, blaming the USSR, who was decimated by the war, for causing the war, and created NATO to begin encircling the USSR, 6 years before the creation of the Warsaw pact.

	10: The North Atlantic allies immediately set to using the Marshall plan to rebuild the fascist German, Italian, and Japanese economies, indebting them to the United States, and orienting them towards anti-communist policy.

	11: The North Atlantic allies to tried to use the Marshall plan as a proto-IMF to privatize and deregulate the economy of the war-torn USSR, and open it up to foreign capital. That the USSR rejected this was framed as aggression and used as a justification for beginning the cold war.

	===Italian fascism===		===Italian fascism===

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	Japanese fascism, also known as Shōwa Statism, was based on a number of [[imperialist]] and [[Ultranationalism\|ultranationalist]] political ideas from various Japanese thinkers. Japanese fascism manifested itself in extreme militarism, monarchism, and expansionism in [[Asia]].		Japanese fascism, also known as Shōwa Statism, was based on a number of [[imperialist]] and [[Ultranationalism\|ultranationalist]] political ideas from various Japanese thinkers. Japanese fascism manifested itself in extreme militarism, monarchism, and expansionism in [[Asia]].

	== Post-World War II ==		== Post-World War II ideological trends of fascism ==

	After World War II, fascism was in retreat. It has since taken on a more international character, borrowing from many sources. Similar to the fascists of the 20th century, neo-fascism is born as a reaction to changing social climates, as well as growing economic hardships among the [[Petty bourgeoisie\|petit-bourgeoisie]]. The term "neofascist" is often vauguely defined, and besides its usage as a mere pejorative, "neo-fascism" better refers to an entire grouping of [[far-right]] trends that appeared after [[Italian fascism\|classical fascism]] largely died as a power-holding ideology after World War 2.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Anna Cento Bull\|year=2012\|title=The Oxford Handbook of Fascism\|title-url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34510/chapter-abstract/292835413?redirectedFrom=fulltext\|chapter=Neo-fascism\|page=586–605\|quote=The term neo-fascism defines primarily those political and ideological groups and parties that operated after 1945, especially in Europe, and which were directly inspired by the experience of the inter-war fascist and Nazi regimes in Germany, Italy, and other European countries. These groups were often made up of remnants of fascist and Nazi activists who were not prepared to give up their political militancy or indeed to renounce their ideologies despite military defeat. Many held radical and uncompromising views, emphasizing the revolutionary nature of fascism rather than its more ‘reassuring’nationalist or statist version. This article analyses neo-fascism after the Second World War; neo-fascism and anti-communism in the United States; neo-fascism during the Cold War; the second-generation neo-fascists after 1968; the extreme right today; and the neo-fascist legacy.\|publisher=Oxford university press\|doi=https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199594788.013.0032\|trans-lang=English}}</ref>		After World War II, fascism was in retreat. It has since taken on a more international character, borrowing from many sources. Similar to the fascists of the 20th century, neo-fascism is born as a reaction to changing social climates, as well as growing economic hardships among the [[Petty bourgeoisie\|petit-bourgeoisie]]. The term "neofascist" is often vauguely defined, and besides its usage as a mere pejorative, "neo-fascism" better refers to an entire grouping of [[far-right]] trends that appeared after [[Italian fascism\|classical fascism]] largely died as a power-holding ideology after World War 2.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Anna Cento Bull\|year=2012\|title=The Oxford Handbook of Fascism\|title-url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34510/chapter-abstract/292835413?redirectedFrom=fulltext\|chapter=Neo-fascism\|page=586–605\|quote=The term neo-fascism defines primarily those political and ideological groups and parties that operated after 1945, especially in Europe, and which were directly inspired by the experience of the inter-war fascist and Nazi regimes in Germany, Italy, and other European countries. These groups were often made up of remnants of fascist and Nazi activists who were not prepared to give up their political militancy or indeed to renounce their ideologies despite military defeat. Many held radical and uncompromising views, emphasizing the revolutionary nature of fascism rather than its more ‘reassuring’nationalist or statist version. This article analyses neo-fascism after the Second World War; neo-fascism and anti-communism in the United States; neo-fascism during the Cold War; the second-generation neo-fascists after 1968; the extreme right today; and the neo-fascist legacy.\|publisher=Oxford university press\|doi=https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199594788.013.0032\|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

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	Neo-nazism, by its most general meaning, refers to the post-World War Two adherence to [[nazism]]. Neo-nazis are highly [[Racism\|racist]], often of the white supremacist and anti-semitic type, [[Conspiracy theory\|conspiratorial]], and [[reactionary]]. Neo-nazism is heavily linked with the "[[alt-right]]", and can be viewed as a particular form of neo-fascism. Neo-nazis goals range from preforming terrorist actions against perceived racial enemies to starting a race war and creating a Fourth Reich.		Neo-nazism, by its most general meaning, refers to the post-World War Two adherence to [[nazism]]. Neo-nazis are highly [[Racism\|racist]], often of the white supremacist and anti-semitic type, [[Conspiracy theory\|conspiratorial]], and [[reactionary]]. Neo-nazism is heavily linked with the "[[alt-right]]", and can be viewed as a particular form of neo-fascism. Neo-nazis goals range from preforming terrorist actions against perceived racial enemies to starting a race war and creating a Fourth Reich.

	==== Strasserism ====		==== Strasserism or Nazbolism ====
	[[File:Black Front Flag.png\|thumb\|200x200px\|Flag often used by strasserists.]]		[[File:Black Front Flag.png\|thumb\|200x200px\|Flag often used by strasserists.]]
	[[Strasserism]] is a [[Third positionism\|third positionist]] ideology based on [[Nazism]]. Strasserism is based on the works of Gregor and Otto Strasser, who were both associated with the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party]]. The main difference between Strasserism and their [[Nazi]] counterparts is that Strasserism calls for a more [[Proletariat\|worker]]-based and socialistic form of regular Nazism. Much like [[National Socialism\|Nazism]], Strasserism is greatly [[Antisemitism\|anti-semitic]], but in the case of Strasserism, its racist conspiracy theories are built on economic anti-semitism, a form of anti-semitism in which the reason why Jewish people are used as a scapegoat for economic ills is because they are supposedly of a higher economic status than the "racially-pure" worker.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Christopher T. Husbands\|year=2020\|title=Militant neo-Nazism in the 1990s\|title-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780429060076-3/federal-republic-germany-christopher-husbands\|isbn=9780429060076\|trans-lang=English}}</ref>		[[Strasserism]] is a [[Third positionism\|third positionist]] ideology based on [[Nazism]]. Strasserism is based on the works of Gregor and Otto Strasser, who were both associated with the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party]]. The main difference between Strasserism and their [[Nazi]] counterparts is that Strasserism calls for a more [[Proletariat\|worker]]-based and socialistic form of regular Nazism. Much like [[National Socialism\|Nazism]], Strasserism is greatly [[Antisemitism\|anti-semitic]], but in the case of Strasserism, its racist conspiracy theories are built on economic anti-semitism, a form of anti-semitism in which the reason why Jewish people are used as a scapegoat for economic ills is because they are supposedly of a higher economic status than the "racially-pure" worker.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Christopher T. Husbands\|year=2020\|title=Militant neo-Nazism in the 1990s\|title-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780429060076-3/federal-republic-germany-christopher-husbands\|isbn=9780429060076\|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

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	Trump’s rule ended in an [[2021 United States Capitol riot\|attempted putsch of the American government]], mainly done by the Far-right paramilitary groups mentioned above. The putsch (often referred to in the capitalist media as the “Jan. 6 insurrection" or riot), was motivated by false conspiracy theories about the [[2020 United States presidential election\|2020 election]] being rigged in favor of the [[Democratic Party (United States)\|Democrats]], as well as Trump’s personal agitation.		Trump’s rule ended in an [[2021 United States Capitol riot\|attempted putsch of the American government]], mainly done by the Far-right paramilitary groups mentioned above. The putsch (often referred to in the capitalist media as the “Jan. 6 insurrection" or riot), was motivated by false conspiracy theories about the [[2020 United States presidential election\|2020 election]] being rigged in favor of the [[Democratic Party (United States)\|Democrats]], as well as Trump’s personal agitation.

			=== Latin America ===

			{{Main article \|Pinochet}}
			{{Main article \|Alberto Fujimori}}
			{{Main article \|2019 Bolivia Coup Attempt}}

	== Fascism in Asia ==		== Fascism in Asia ==

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	===Japanese fascism===		===Japanese fascism===
	Japanese fascism, also known as Shōwa Statism, was based on a number of [[imperialist]] and [[Ultranationalism\|ultranationalist]] political ideas from various Japanese thinkers. Japanese fascism manifested itself in extreme militarism, monarchism, and expansionism in [[Asia]].		Japanese fascism, also known as Shōwa Statism, was based on a number of [[imperialist]] and [[Ultranationalism\|ultranationalist]] political ideas from various Japanese thinkers. Japanese fascism manifested itself in extreme militarism, monarchism, and expansionism in [[Asia]].

	~~== Fascism in Latin America ===~~

	~~{{Main article \|Pinochet}}~~
	~~{{Main article \|Alberto Fujimori}}~~
	~~{{Main article \|2019 Bolivia Coup Attempt}}~~

	== Post-World War II ==		== Post-World War II ==

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	{{Main article\|Oswald Mosley}}		{{Main article\|Oswald Mosley}}

	=== ~~The~~ United States ~~of North America~~ ===		== Fascism in the Americas ==

			=== United States ===

	[[File:USA capital photo jan. 2021.jpg\|thumb\|Many neo-fascist groups were involved in the [[2021 United States Capitol riot\|2021 United States Capitol coup attempt.]]]]		[[File:USA capital photo jan. 2021.jpg\|thumb\|Many neo-fascist groups were involved in the [[2021 United States Capitol riot\|2021 United States Capitol coup attempt.]]]]

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	'''Fascism''' is a [[Counterrevolution\|counter-revolutionary]] [[reactionary]] movement led by finance [[capital]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Georgi Dimitrov\|year=1935\|title=The fascist offensive and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle of the working class against fascism\|chapter=The class character of fascism\|page=\|quote=No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. '''Fascism is the power of finance capital itself'''. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia.\|pdf=\|city=\|publisher=Main Report delivered at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International\|isbn=\|doi=\|lg=\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm\|title-url=\|chapter-url=\|trans-title=\|trans-lang=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|title=Encyclopedia of Marxism\|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/a.htm#fascism}}</ref> and a form of [[dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]] which emerged during periods of [[economic crisis]] in [[Imperialism\|imperialist]] countries.<ref>{{Citation\|author=William I. Robinson\|year=2019\|title=Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype\|quote=Fascism, whether in its classical 20th-century form or possible variants of 21st-century neo-fascism, is a particular response to capitalist crisis, such as that of the 1930s and the one that began with the financial meltdown of 2008. Global capitalism is facing an organic crisis involving an intractable structural dimension, that of overaccumulation, and a political dimension, that of legitimacy or hegemony that is approaching a general crisis of capitalist rule.\|publisher=Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183\|doi=10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155}}</ref> In other words, fascism is [[capitalism]] in decay.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Rajani Palme Dutt]]\|year=1935\|title=Fascism and Social Revolution\|chapter=Preface to the Second Edition\|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fascismandsocial0000rpal/page/n15/mode/2up\|page=xiv\|location=London\|publisher=Martin Lawrence LTD\|quote=Fascism is not merely the expression of a particular movement, of a particular party within modern society, but that it is the most complete expression of the whole tendency of modern capitalism in decay, as the final attempt to defeat the working-class revolution and organise society on the basis of decay.}}</ref> The [[Communist International (1919–1943)\|Third International]] described fascism as the "open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most [[Chauvinism\|chauvinistic]], and most imperialist elements of finance capital."<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Georgi Dimitrov]]\|year=1935\|title=The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism\|chapter=Fascism and the Working Class\|quote=Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm}}</ref>		'''Fascism''' is a [[Counterrevolution\|counter-revolutionary]] [[reactionary]] movement led by finance [[capital]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Georgi Dimitrov\|year=1935\|title=The fascist offensive and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle of the working class against fascism\|chapter=The class character of fascism\|page=\|quote=No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. '''Fascism is the power of finance capital itself'''. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia.\|pdf=\|city=\|publisher=Main Report delivered at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International\|isbn=\|doi=\|lg=\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm\|title-url=\|chapter-url=\|trans-title=\|trans-lang=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|title=Encyclopedia of Marxism\|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/a.htm#fascism}}</ref> and a form of [[dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]] which emerged during periods of [[economic crisis]] in [[Imperialism\|imperialist]] countries.<ref>{{Citation\|author=William I. Robinson\|year=2019\|title=Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype\|quote=Fascism, whether in its classical 20th-century form or possible variants of 21st-century neo-fascism, is a particular response to capitalist crisis, such as that of the 1930s and the one that began with the financial meltdown of 2008. Global capitalism is facing an organic crisis involving an intractable structural dimension, that of overaccumulation, and a political dimension, that of legitimacy or hegemony that is approaching a general crisis of capitalist rule.\|publisher=Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183\|doi=10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155}}</ref> In other words, fascism is [[capitalism]] in decay.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Rajani Palme Dutt]]\|year=1935\|title=Fascism and Social Revolution\|chapter=Preface to the Second Edition\|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fascismandsocial0000rpal/page/n15/mode/2up\|page=xiv\|location=London\|publisher=Martin Lawrence LTD\|quote=Fascism is not merely the expression of a particular movement, of a particular party within modern society, but that it is the most complete expression of the whole tendency of modern capitalism in decay, as the final attempt to defeat the working-class revolution and organise society on the basis of decay.}}</ref> The [[Communist International (1919–1943)\|Third International]] described fascism as the "open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most [[Chauvinism\|chauvinistic]], and most imperialist elements of finance capital."<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Georgi Dimitrov]]\|year=1935\|title=The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism\|chapter=Fascism and the Working Class\|quote=Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm}}</ref>

	Fascism abolishes [[bourgeois democracy]] without abolishing bourgeois rule itself. In contrast, [[socialism]] abolishes both in order to create a [[~~Democratic centralism~~\|more substantive form of democracy]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]\|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]\|title=This Is Not Populism\|date=2017-06-01\|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718012353/https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-date=2023-07-18}}</ref>		Fascism abolishes [[bourgeois democracy]] without abolishing bourgeois rule itself. In contrast, [[socialism]] abolishes both in order to create a [[Dictatorship of the proletariat\|more substantive form of democracy]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]\|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]\|title=This Is Not Populism\|date=2017-06-01\|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718012353/https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-date=2023-07-18}}</ref>

	Fascism usually promotes policies that favor the ever-expanding domination of capital. Its political aspect is marked by pervasive [[anti-communism]], a profound aversion towards [[democracy]], the justification and glorification of [[class society]] through [[class collaboration]], and chauvinistic tendencies, namely reactionary [[nationalism]], [[racism]], [[sexism]], [[xenophobia]], [[transphobia]] and [[ableism]]. Fascist ideologues usually promote [[Conspiracy theory\|conspiracy theories]], irrational myths and manipulative distortions of truth to gather support of their popular base.		Fascism usually promotes policies that favor the ever-expanding domination of capital. Its political aspect is marked by pervasive [[anti-communism]], a profound aversion towards [[democracy]], the justification and glorification of [[class society]] through [[class collaboration]], and chauvinistic tendencies, namely reactionary [[nationalism]], [[racism]], [[sexism]], [[xenophobia]], [[transphobia]] and [[ableism]]. Fascist ideologues usually promote [[Conspiracy theory\|conspiracy theories]], irrational myths and manipulative distortions of truth to gather support of their popular base.

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	[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1981-052-06A, Albert Speer spricht in Munitionsfabrik.jpg\|thumb\|The Roman Salute is commonly associated with Nazis and other Fascists.]]		[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1981-052-06A, Albert Speer spricht in Munitionsfabrik.jpg\|thumb\|The Roman Salute is commonly associated with Nazis and other Fascists.]]
	'''Fascism''' is a [[Counterrevolution\|counter-revolutionary]] [[reactionary]] movement led by finance [[capital]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Georgi Dimitrov\|year=1935\|title=The fascist offensive and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle of the working class against fascism\|chapter=The class character of fascism\|page=\|quote=No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. '''Fascism is the power of finance capital itself'''. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia.\|pdf=\|city=\|publisher=Main Report delivered at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International\|isbn=\|doi=\|lg=\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm\|title-url=\|chapter-url=\|trans-title=\|trans-lang=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|title=Encyclopedia of Marxism\|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/a.htm#fascism}}</ref> and a form of [[dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]] which emerged during periods of [[economic crisis]] in [[Imperialism\|imperialist]] countries.<ref>{{Citation\|author=William I. Robinson\|year=2019\|title=Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype\|quote=Fascism, whether in its classical 20th-century form or possible variants of 21st-century neo-fascism, is a particular response to capitalist crisis, such as that of the 1930s and the one that began with the financial meltdown of 2008. Global capitalism is facing an organic crisis involving an intractable structural dimension, that of overaccumulation, and a political dimension, that of legitimacy or hegemony that is approaching a general crisis of capitalist rule.\|publisher=Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183\|doi=10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155}}</ref> The [[Communist International (1919–1943)\|Third International]] described fascism as the "open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most [[Chauvinism\|chauvinistic]], and most imperialist elements of finance capital."<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Georgi Dimitrov]]\|year=1935\|title=The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism\|chapter=Fascism and the Working Class\|quote=Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm}}</ref>		'''Fascism''' is a [[Counterrevolution\|counter-revolutionary]] [[reactionary]] movement led by finance [[capital]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Georgi Dimitrov\|year=1935\|title=The fascist offensive and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle of the working class against fascism\|chapter=The class character of fascism\|page=\|quote=No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. '''Fascism is the power of finance capital itself'''. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia.\|pdf=\|city=\|publisher=Main Report delivered at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International\|isbn=\|doi=\|lg=\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm\|title-url=\|chapter-url=\|trans-title=\|trans-lang=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|title=Encyclopedia of Marxism\|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/a.htm#fascism}}</ref> and a form of [[dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]] which emerged during periods of [[economic crisis]] in [[Imperialism\|imperialist]] countries.<ref>{{Citation\|author=William I. Robinson\|year=2019\|title=Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype\|quote=Fascism, whether in its classical 20th-century form or possible variants of 21st-century neo-fascism, is a particular response to capitalist crisis, such as that of the 1930s and the one that began with the financial meltdown of 2008. Global capitalism is facing an organic crisis involving an intractable structural dimension, that of overaccumulation, and a political dimension, that of legitimacy or hegemony that is approaching a general crisis of capitalist rule.\|publisher=Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183\|doi=10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155}}</ref> In other words, fascism is [[capitalism]] in decay.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Rajani Palme Dutt]]\|year=1935\|title=Fascism and Social Revolution\|chapter=Preface to the Second Edition\|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fascismandsocial0000rpal/page/n15/mode/2up\|page=xiv\|location=London\|publisher=Martin Lawrence LTD\|quote=Fascism is not merely the expression of a particular movement, of a particular party within modern society, but that it is the most complete expression of the whole tendency of modern capitalism in decay, as the final attempt to defeat the working-class revolution and organise society on the basis of decay.}}</ref> The [[Communist International (1919–1943)\|Third International]] described fascism as the "open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most [[Chauvinism\|chauvinistic]], and most imperialist elements of finance capital."<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Georgi Dimitrov]]\|year=1935\|title=The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism\|chapter=Fascism and the Working Class\|quote=Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm}}</ref>

	Fascism abolishes [[bourgeois democracy]] without abolishing bourgeois rule itself. In contrast, [[socialism]] abolishes both in order to create a [[Democratic centralism\|more substantive form of democracy]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]\|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]\|title=This Is Not Populism\|date=2017-06-01\|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718012353/https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-date=2023-07-18}}</ref>		Fascism abolishes [[bourgeois democracy]] without abolishing bourgeois rule itself. In contrast, [[socialism]] abolishes both in order to create a [[Democratic centralism\|more substantive form of democracy]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]\|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]\|title=This Is Not Populism\|date=2017-06-01\|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718012353/https://monthlyreview.org/2017/06/01/this-is-not-populism/\|archive-date=2023-07-18}}</ref>