What differentiates fascism from fundamentalism?
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Fascism is typified by totalitarian attempts to impose state control (see corporatism) over all aspects of life: political, social, cultural, and economic. The fascist state regulates and controls (as opposed to nationalizing) the means of production. Fascism exalts the nation, state, or race as superior to the individuals, institutions, or groups composing it. Fascism uses explicit populist rhetoric; calls for a heroic mass effort to restore past greatness; and demands loyalty to a single leader,(see G.W Bush) often to the point of a cult of personality.\n\nThe term fundamentalism in popular usage sometimes refers to any fringe religious group, or to extremist ethnic movements with only nominally religious motivations(i.e.Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell) the term does have a more precise denotation. "Fundamentalist" describes a movement to return to what is considered the defining or founding principles of the religion. It has especially come to refer to any religious enclave that intentionally resists identification with the larger religious group in which it originally arose, on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become corrupt or displaced by alternative principles hostile to its identity.
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Radical Christian Fundamentalists\n\nKool Aid Drinkers
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by definition\na liberal is "on the left" and wants a bigger government and more government spending and programs.  A welfare state and care by the government is encouraged\na conservative "on the right" wants a smaller government and less government spending and programs.  Independence from government is encouraged\nBoth have problems and both have contradictions (republican conservative congress had record spending)\n\n**in response to above, Hitler was right-wing.  this doesn't reflect on any American politics today.  Not all liberals support pro-choice.  Supporting pro-choice is not supporting abortion, it is supporting an option for women who make mistakes.
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I have friends who are fundamentalist, but at the same time do not push their views on other people, nor do they try to push their Bible's influence on the country.  The people who are fundamentalist, and at the same time trying to move their agenda into everyone else's life are the ones who are a plague on society.\n\nIt all depends on the individual.  The friends that I have are not cheating, or beating their kids and cheap in restraints.  My Brother and his Wife are about as fundamental as you can get and they are very much against the Neo Con agenda.
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fundamentalist is NOT precisely defined usually on the conservative end\n\nevangelical is not so precisely defined as you might think  and includes very conservative to somewhat conservative views\nand beyond that preaching the gospel...  the evangel... the good news\n\nin general conservative evangelical... a very broad term.. can mean believing what the bible claims about itself\nTaking the Bible to be true in the sense of the literature intended\nand standing for the truths of the gospel, the good news\n\nfundamentalism,  might mean to some wooden literalism...  or it might mean conceiving truth.. and almost the same as the previous.. usually its a reaction to liberalism which much too often sold the farm too often on Biblical truth\n\nthere are differences in style,  but frankly they do more to undermine each other and lose more than they gain  if they overcrtitisize each other instead of having respectful disagreements although granted we are talking about important issues
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Nazism is an offshoot of Fascism.\n\nFascism is the general group, like socialism or republicanism.\n\nAn extreme Socialist is a Communist.\nAn extreme Fascist is a Nazi.\n\nThat's probably the best way to describe it.
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According to wikipedia:\n\nCommunism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production.  It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement.\n\nSocialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control.  This control may be either direct—exercised through popular collectives such as workers' councils—or it may be indirect—exercised on behalf of the people by the state.
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Neither.  The most illicit thing for any fundamentalist believer is THINKING FOR YOURSELF.
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Both.  \n\nHe is a terrorist in that he attempts to use terror and fear as his primary weapons to bring down a regime.  The fact that he's on the losing side deson't help this definition.  If by some odd act of entropy that we surrendered to the fool we'd be calling him a freedom fighter and a revolutionary.  Its all subjective, after all the victors write the history books.\n\nHe is also a fanatical fundamentalist who does not represent Islam nor the majority of its people, only a specifically deranged minority with a nasty tendency to explode.
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Both refer to philosophical positions, but are usually applied to political movements that embody those philosophies.\n\nLiberals favor growth, change, flexibility. They tend to be more dynamic and driven, but often less organized. In the political arena, liberals favor progressive reform and the protection of civil liberties.\n\nConservatives favor tradition, conformity, and slow (if any) change. They tend to be more organized, but occasionally stagnant. In politics, this can be split between those who seek minimal government interference with minimal government social programs, and those who want heavy government regulation to ensure national conformity.
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The idea of fundamentalism arose around this time. One aspect it regarded was the teaching of evolution in schools. One teacher was put on a trial, and it was actually quite famous, for teaching about evolution. It supposedly went against the teachings of Christianity and creationism.
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Technically its neither, but your close, fascism currently does run rampant, freedom does not.\n\nWHAT WE HAVE HERE is a Quasi-Democracy, meaning that our so-called democracy is only an illusion, ALL officials of government, from the lowly copper to the president are actually sworn to "Protect and Serve ..." the United Empire. This "United Empire" is also known as the Brittish Association of Royalty or BAR, the enemy of "We the People", the enemy who we fought against in the American Revolution. Unfortunately, we didn't really win, these criminals just lead us to believe this lie. In fact because they were so successful at decieving us they did it with all the brittish colonies like Austraila and even England. Research their so-called revolutions and you'll see they were merely a charade orchestrated by this evil entity. Afterall, which resource is more advantagously exploited, a slave that knows they're bound or one that "believes" ther free!\n\nI think this means "We" are victims of the first Reich.\n\nWant more reality? e-mail xactruth@yahoo.com
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There is a difference between Islamic Fundamentalists and Islamic Fundamentalist  Terrorist's.  The terrorist'sare spread out between all the Muslim Countries, yet there is no country that is terrorist alone.  So we actually have a war against an ideal and not against a particular country.  The terrorist backing is growing and the fact that they use things such as the political cartoons as reasons to get thousands of people to protest over them.  One does not know exactly who the enemy actually is.  That is what terrorism is all about one minute everything looks completely innocent and the next you have been attacked and there is nobody left on sight to go after, they have died completing their mission.  Can we surgically remove all of this cancer on mankind without killing many innocent?  It is not very likely but it is the direction that we have taken this war.  We certainly have the weapons to remove all of the people of this region of the world several times over.  One must wonder if the terrorists are not also playing to the hearts and minds of the rest of the Islamic Fundamentalist's when many of the rioter's of the past week have chanted bin Ladens name and asked for retaliation against the western world to be carried out by him.  It would seem to me that our government certainly must be looking at these incidents very carefully.  I can not speak for the rest of the Western World, however I know that the U.S. has the power to destroy the world several times over and could certainly remove most Islamic Fundamentalist's in one swift blow and it is our restaint in wanting to be fair that keeps this from happening.  Most of today's terrorist activity is being aimed at other Muslims and not at the western world, which raises a whole list of other questions.  The answer to your question is the U.S. is not afraid of standing up to Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist's, however that does not include the entire Muslim population in the world.
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Three words: RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM and CAPITALISM.\nSome have responded with answers such as Satan. However, that would imply that the world is getting worse. Historically speaking, it certainly is not. The unification of and cooperation between countries indicates a positive movement of participants in the world economy. This is a recent and continuing phenomenon.\n\nThe current threat to stability is the widespread conflict in the Middle East, in addition to much of Africa's problems. What fosters these problems? RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM and CAPITALISM.
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Fascism.....plain and simple
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fascism means a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)\n\nmarxism means the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded by communism\n\ncommunism means  a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership...... a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
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The basic difference is that Communism is a pure political philosophy where the Government controls all the means of production while Capitalism is on the opposite end of the spectrum, where the people own the means of production.\n\nSocialism is the hybrid of Communism and Capitalism.  Socialism is essentially Capitalism where the government controls certain industries within the country's marketplace.\n\nSome examples:\n\nCapitalist:  United States; Or, more purely, Hong Kong (but not the rest of China).\n\nSocialism:  Germany, Norway\n\nCommunism:  Cuba or China