Not Poetry.. Fascism Comments

Fascism has actually existed for centuries. Fascism as an ideology in a nutshell is the belief that the government is a sort of 'super-corporation' where all other sectors of the economy are its subsidies. The term Fascism itself has become something of an empty word, since its association with Naziism, anti-semitism, and white supremacy (which are not necessarily fascist values, as demonstrated by Imperial Japan) has led to the term 'fascist' becoming a derogatory term used across the political spectrum for various reasons. But a closer inspection reveals that Fascism is actually a patchwork system of many different ideas of Italian, French, German and British ideologies conglomerated into one political movement.

Proto-Fascism began as a splinter faction of the Italian Socialist Party. In 1914, the party was bitterly divided over what to do about World War I. One faction clung to the tenets of Karl Marx, and maintained that the Great war was Capitalist grandstanding. The other group was deeply influenced by Italian nationalism, stemming from the traditional Italian hatred of Austria as well as the Italian Futurists, an art movement that glorified war, industry, and energy.
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