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 indiscrim...