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FASCISM An In-Depth Explanation
title: "FASCISM: An In-Depth Explanation"
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_98uT1IZs
Authors: "[[Ryan Chapman]]"
published: 2022-03-08
created: 2025-09-22
description: Fascism explained through Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany.
tags:
- clippings
subjects:
- "[[fascism]]"
takeaways:
- "Only two governments in history have been widely agreed to be fascist: Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. "
media_link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_98uT1IZs
Status: âś… Read
- 02:25: Gustave Lebon taught in The Crowd that people in a large group cease to think for themselves. Instead they become a part of the group.
- 05:18: Benito Mussolini was influenced by Karl Marx through the thought of George Sorell.
- 10:03: Mussolini explicitly rejected Truth.
37:03 Conclusion: What is Fascism?
- 37:27: Usually when people try to define fascism, they do so by going into the details of fascist movements.
- This isn't the way that we define socialism, capitalism, liberalism or any other major ism in this way.
- We should define fascism, like any other ism, by it's core idea and not merely it's symptoms.
- 38:03 Communism defined by Karl Marx in Communist Manifesto (1848): Abolition of private property
- 38:18: Is there an idea or set of words that are distinctly fascist?
- Yes. The nazi phrase blood and soil
- 38:42: Ryan's initial definition of fascism: The ideology of blood and soil.
- This is the idea people are bound together by blood and bound to the soil of the nation.
- 39:29: Roger Griffin definition of fascism:
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Fascism is a political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultra-nationalism.
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- 40:22: Jonathan Haidt said Fascism is hive psychology scaled up to grotesque heights.
- 40:46: Ryan's finalized definition of fascism:
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"We think with the blood of our nation."
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"[Fascism] is when you have a hive of people imagining themselves as bound together by the blood of their nation, and surrendering their critical thinking skills and instead dutifully thinking whatever they are told the nation thinks. In my opinion, that's fascism."
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37:03 Conclusion: What is Fascism?