Fascism/Nazism Study Guide
Fascism & Nazism
* Brutality, suffering made clear chemical warfare * Loss of faith look for fascism & Nazism * Turn to science to make life better * Malthus – “perfectibility of man” scarcity of resources * Smith – Leave human nature
Why does WWI cast reason in doubt? * Corruption: Why are we fighting? * 10 million dead, 21 million hurt leads to loss of demand (consumers) * War is expensive, international debt in Europe * Infrastructure, factories destroyed * T.S. Elliot – calls it “wasteland” * WWI Ends Treaty of Versaille * WWI- start questioning ideas of reason and what they’ve learned: blind faith * Not getting better, suffering
Fascism * Monolithic unity – 1 leader, 1 party, 1 will * Anti liberalism – b/c loss of sense of thought/ideas * Anti Marxist – b/c single party, dictatorship * If we get rid of all other parties, we get rid of conflict * Terror & police surveillance * Intimidate, get rid of all other parties * Economic characteristics * Fascists reject free market system * Reject Marxist * So find a different way of doing something Corporatism * Government plans economy, but private ownership allowed * 22 corporations
Agriculture 1. Capital 2. Manufactures of equipment 3. Privately owned farms 4. Seed suppliers 5. Storage, processing facilities 6. Transportation * This all becomes corporation in fascism
* Italy came up with 22 corporations * Not free market & not socialist – do they achieve this? Will this work? * Ownership vs. Proprietary Rights * After WWI – suffering in Italy – strikes, poverty, seizure of factories, land for own needs * People calling on government * Socialist party and Catholic party refused to work together * Fascist party – small group in Northern Italy * Started by using force to scare
* Brutality, suffering made clear chemical warfare * Loss of faith look for fascism & Nazism * Turn to science to make life better * Malthus – “perfectibility of man” scarcity of resources * Smith – Leave human nature
Why does WWI cast reason in doubt? * Corruption: Why are we fighting? * 10 million dead, 21 million hurt leads to loss of demand (consumers) * War is expensive, international debt in Europe * Infrastructure, factories destroyed * T.S. Elliot – calls it “wasteland” * WWI Ends Treaty of Versaille * WWI- start questioning ideas of reason and what they’ve learned: blind faith * Not getting better, suffering
Fascism * Monolithic unity – 1 leader, 1 party, 1 will * Anti liberalism – b/c loss of sense of thought/ideas * Anti Marxist – b/c single party, dictatorship * If we get rid of all other parties, we get rid of conflict * Terror & police surveillance * Intimidate, get rid of all other parties * Economic characteristics * Fascists reject free market system * Reject Marxist * So find a different way of doing something Corporatism * Government plans economy, but private ownership allowed * 22 corporations
Agriculture 1. Capital 2. Manufactures of equipment 3. Privately owned farms 4. Seed suppliers 5. Storage, processing facilities 6. Transportation * This all becomes corporation in fascism
* Italy came up with 22 corporations * Not free market & not socialist – do they achieve this? Will this work? * Ownership vs. Proprietary Rights * After WWI – suffering in Italy – strikes, poverty, seizure of factories, land for own needs * People calling on government * Socialist party and Catholic party refused to work together * Fascist party – small group in Northern Italy * Started by using force to scare