Question

What are nationalism and fascism, and is there any connection or relationship between the two?

Answer 1

Fascism is a political structure where the means of production are not owned, but regulated, by the Government. You may argue that representative populist government is fascism in the overt and arbitration control. This is particularly true of certain sectors. Nationalism is a cultural context in which nationalist fervor for a country under no specific political structure promotes collectivist government bans

Nationalism is a virulent type of identity politics, in which one identifies so closely with a particular group that he puts an undue effort into promoting that group's causes and credibility. Nationalism is also about competitive prestige: in any case a nationalist is compelled to ensure that the party he recognizes has more prestige money, strength, reputation, popularity than other groups. Whether it means extolling your party or defaming or killing others, or whether it means lying, stealing, or abussing the system to give advantages to your party, a nationalist is a fervent zealot: not for a cause but for a group.

Fascism is a modern type of nationalism in which the identity-group concerned is formed around a pseudo-genetic ethnic identity. It is nationalism with a Darwinian twist, where a group, on supposed biological grounds, extols itself as superior. The litmus cases are the Romanism and Arianism of Italy by Mussolini, and Germany by Hitler, where a mythological ethnic identity has been used to galvanize political movements.

Fascism is commonly used as an offensive term (for obvious reasons), but internally, fascism is not worse than nationalism put more widely. Fascism does lend itself to different kinds of human violence, based on its denial of the dignity of other races' human life, but non-racial nationalists tend to be barbaric in their own right, for solely political benefit. Being imprisoned or executed because one is a hated race is neither better nor worse than being imprisoned or executed because one is perceived as a political threat; in the face of the act itself, the precise reasons why various political groups wish to dispose of other human beings tend to be relatively insignificant.