HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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Question
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Fascism appealed to the upper and middle class by keeping their wealth and social structure intact.
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Fascism appealed to the working class by promising to redistribute the wealth and provide future job opportunities.
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Fascism appealed to the upper middle class by allowing tax incentives to small business owners.
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Fascism appealed to the mass population by not providing compulsory attendance for public education
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mussolini defined fascism as being a left-wing collectivistic ideology in opposition to socialism, liberalism, democracy and individualism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Both fascist and communist ideology represented revolutionary responses to the multiple discontents of industrial modernity and to political liberalism – its many conflicts of class, gender, party, and nation, its erosion of traditional communities in the name of individualism, its pervasive materialism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Two similarities between fascism and communism is that they both imposed totalitarian governments and both claimed to rule in the national interests. One difference between the two is that communists sought world revolution while fascists pursued nationalism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Italian fascism opposed liberalism, especially classical liberalism, which fascist leaders denounced as “the debacle of individualism". Fascism was opposed to socialism because of the latter’s frequent opposition to nationalism, but it was also opposed to the reactionary conservatism developed by Joseph de Maistre.