Fascism is often used in talking about politics, and often seems to mean little more than "something I do not like". So the question is how can you tell if a political movement is actually fascist? I submit that a good first question would be:
How much does a movement embody the idea of "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." (Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato)?
This was a slogan of Mussolini and IMO captures an essential aspect of fascism.
(You may ask why I did not take a quote from Hitler. This is because no discussion of anything dealing w/ Hitler can be separated from his hatred and mass murder of Jews, nor should it be. This is why he is the most infamous of fascists. Talking about him would simply turn fascism into a synonym for hatred of Jews. Unfortunately, hatred of Jews is not uniquely fascist, and requires other questions.)
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