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   From: athinker@gopfags.net   
      
   Fascism, Nazism and Conservatism   
      
   European fascism drew on existing anti-modernist conservatism, and on the   
   conservative reaction to communism and 19th-century socialism.   
   Conservative thinkers such as historian Oswald Spengler provided much of   
   the world view (Weltanschauung) of the Nazi movement.   
      
   In Britain, the conservative Daily Mail enthusiastically backed Sir Oswald   
   Mosley's British Union of Fascists, and part of the Conservative Party   
   supported closer ties with Nazi Germany.   
      
   When defeat in World War II ideologically and historically discredited   
   fascism, almost all Western conservatives tried to distance themselves   
   from it. Nevertheless, many post-war Western conservatives continued to   
   admire the Franco regime in Spain, clearly conservative but also fascist   
   in origin. With the end of the Franco regime and Portugal's Estado Novo in   
   the 1970s, the relationship between conservatism and classical European   
   fascism was further weakened.   
      
   Militarism is perhaps the most striking similarity between Fascism and   
   contemporary American conservatism. Of course, there are many liberals in   
   America who support the military and even call for increased military   
   spending.   
      
   Even so, American liberals are traditionally more skeptical of the   
   military than American conservatives. It is often said that   
   Neoconservatives, like Hitler, see the military as a paradigm for problem   
   solving (even in situations that may render militarism impractical or   
   unethical).   
      
   The relationship of fascism to right-wing ideologies (including some that   
   are described as neo-fascist) is still an issue for conservatives   
   and their opponents. Especially in Germany, there is a constant exchange   
   of ideology and persons, between the influential national-conservative   
   movement, and self-identified national-socialist groups.   
   In Italy too, there is no clear line between conservatives, and movements   
   inspired by the Italian Fascism of the 1920s to 1940s, including the   
   Alleanza Nazionale which is member of the governing coalition under   
   premier Silvio Berlusconi. Conservative attitudes to the 20th-century   
   fascist regimes are still an issue.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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