Question

Compare and contrast communism and fascism. Select one example for each to examine the origins of the governments, their accomplishments, and their failures. What accounts for the fact that the masses mobilized to support these movements? Elaborate.

Answer 1

Answer:

communism is a system based around a theory of economic equality and advocates for a classless society, WHILE, fascism is a nationalistic, top-down system with rigid class roles that is ruled by an all-powerful dictator. Both communism and fascism originated in Europe and gained popularity in the early to mid 20th century.

Fascist governments are different from communist ones in that fascists, in theory, support the right of labor representatives and corporate representatives (CEOs, company presidents, etc.) to negotiate - through a system called corporatism.

Explanation: The most disturbing development of the interwar era was the emergence of totalitarian communist and fascist governments.1 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini coined the word “totalitarian” to express the state’s role of personifying the “immanent spirit of the nation,” but the word has come to mean the state’s total control of politics, economics, and society. In this sense, totalitarianism has been more nearly a “communist” than a “fascist” phenomenon.