Fascism Podcast Draft

Fascism is the political idea that, the average person should support their country rather than pursue individual freedoms. Fascists are people that are nationalistic, militaristic, anti-communist, totalitarianism, and corporatism as some of the idea's of a Fascist. The word fascism derives from the Latin word fasces, which means " Bundle" or the Italian word, fascismo which means "Bundle" or "Union". They believe that corporations should be able to become monopolies, to make great economic progress in the country. They believe that freedom of speech and press should not be allowed, however, they usually try to make the people convert into one religion, one ethnic background, one cultural and racist background. Fascism really started to progress in the years prior to World War two.

This was when two famous Fascist Dictators came to power. One of the reasons why they came to power was because World War one had left them economically and socially in disarray. The Two Dictators were Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Hitler was dictator of Germany and Mussolini was dictator of Italy. They would also use threats and fear to control the population. These dictatorships used the fact that the League of Nations and the treaty of Versailles was depriving them of there true power. The people believed that they were the right people to do the job. Once Hitler and Mussolini were in power, they bascically started WW II because they were so militarily aggresive. In other words-they were bullies.
The extremely poor and middle class favored Fascism because it was supposed to aid the poor and middle class rather then the wealthy. Other people who support this idea were, nationalist, people not affected by World War one, Big Corporations, landowners ( because they got there own land) Small business owners and extreme conservatives. After world War two, the number of fascist have decreased tremendously.