Central tenets of fascism
Discuss the central tenets of fascism. Explicate the relation between individual and the state from the perspective of fascism. • Fascism is considered to be ‘an ill-assorted hodge-podge of ideas’ because there’s no single unifying idea that guided the fascist movement. Fascism is a complex incoherent बेतुका doctrine that has emerged from heterogeneous sources and socio-cultural traditions, only to evolve on instrument of mass appeal and mass mobilization for the attainment of political goals. According to William E Benstein, despite being an incoherent philosophy, it is possible to identify its core principles or a ‘fascism minimum’ or its structural core. I. Anti-rationalism It constitute the fundamental idea of the fascist world-view. Fascism suggests to abandon reason and rational thinking by proclaiming that human beings are motivated by their powerful emotions and will rather than the rational mind. It facilitated the indiscriminate use of myths