fascists sought to tether the private sector to statist social engineering. Fascism competed with Marxist-Leninism to be the successor to parliamentary democracy and capitalism

The only real opponent of fascism has been conservatism, which champions small government, free markets, Judeo-Christian civilization and individual rights. It’s no accident Hitler’s greatest foe was British Tory Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Both Hitler and Mussolini were national socialists. They were militant pagans hostile to Christianity, religious orthodoxy and tradition. They believed in the cult of personality, mass propaganda and the pseudo-spiritual transformational nature of politics: charismatic leadership as a means of fulfilling people’s deepest aspirations. They glorified the state, as well as the subordination of the individual and the family to the collective.

Fascist social policy was so popular that President Franklin Roosevelt incorporated much of it in the New Deal. Read more at www.washingtontimes.com