By Fascism, I mean a highly centralized system of government led by a dictator, with extreme nationalism, militarism, patriarchism, and an oppression of all dissent (no freedom of speech). — darthbarracuda

Ultimately, I think Fascism can only be understood in the context of when and where it originates. Post-WWI Europe — darthbarracuda

Call it what you want but it has little if anything in common with European Fascism, unless we expand this concept to the point of vacuity. — Erik

many of the practical expressions of Fascism such as party organization, system of education, and discipline can only be understood when considered in relation to its general attitude toward life. A spiritual attitude (3). — The Doctrine of Fascism

6) Fascism is derived from individual or social frustration — Cavacava

The prosecutor said earlier that a body was found so riddled with bullets that made it difficult to identify - which turned out to be Abaaoud.

Is that what you're asking? Or are you trying to make a distinction between the Nazis in power and the purer party platform--or more widely, the fascist platform in general--from which they had deviated? — jamalrob

It was highly progressive and obviously socialist in nature. — Question

I still haven't gotten to reading that book in totality; but, think it's a novel perspective than the usual finger pointing of the Nazi platform being on the far-right, which it was not. — Question

... the methods of intellectual history become much less helpful beyond the first stage in the fascist cycle. Every fascist movement that has rooted itself successfully as a major political contender, thereby approaching power, has betrayed its initial antibourgeois and anticapitalist programs. The processes to be examined in later stages include the breakdown of democratic regimes and the success of fascist movements in assembling new, borad catch-all parties that attract a mass following across classes and hence seem attractive allies to conservatives looking for ways to perpetuate their shaken rule. At laster stages, successful fascist parties also position themselves as the most effective barriers, by persuasin or by force, to an advancing Left and prove adept at the formation, maintenence and domination of political coalitions with conservatives. But these political successes come at the cost of the first ideological programs. Demonstrating their contempt for doctrine, successfully rooted fascist parties do not annul or amend their early programs. They simply ignore them, while acting in ways quite contrary to them. The conflicts of doctrine and practice set up by successful fascist movements on the road to power not only alienate many radical fascists of the first hour; they continue to confuse many historians who assume that analysing programs is a sufficient tool for classifying fascisms. The confusion has been compounded by the persistence of many early fascisms that failed to navigate the turn from the first to the second and third stages, and remained pure and radical, though marginal, as "national syndicalisms" — Paxton, p 14 -- 15

I think I have said this before and I'm not afraid of saying it again; but, if you leave out the parts about killing all the Jews and invading Poland, what specifically about the Nazi political platform do you disagree with? — Question

The reason is that it's simply dead. — ssu