[Wolfman]

Rather inspired by this thread, what are some of the different types of Fascism, and more generally anti-democratic (anti-liberal maybe more accurate) government theories?

[Preston Cole]

Italian Fascism
* corporatism combined with nationalism, interventionism, imperialism, futurism, totalitarianism.

National Socialism
* Hitlerism/SS: scientific racialism combined with romantic nationalism, mixed economy.
* Strasserism/SA: scientific racialism combined with working class nationalist revolution, guild socialism, a more planned economy.

British Fascism (British Union of Fascists)
* Similar in almost all respects to Italian Fascism.

Falangism
* Pre-Franco Falange: revolutionary republican nationalism combined with syndicalism, Catholicism, corporate state.
* Francoist Falange: monarchist conservative nationalism, initially supporting a weaker form of the original Falange's syndicalism, then supporting economic liberalism.
(Falangism has various offshoots in Latin America).

Legionarism (Romanian Legion of Archangel Michael)
* Nationalist-christian revolution, anti-Semitic, drawing support primarily from workers and peasants, though it is not a leftist variant of fascism like Strasserism and National Bolshevism.

Hungarian Fascism (Arrow Cross Party)
* National Socialist racial theories, drawing support from workers and peasants, like Legionarism.

Ustashism (Croatian Ustashe)
* National Socialist-like racialism adapted to Slavic peoples, anti-Semitism, Catholicism.

Revisionist Maximalism (Jewish)
* Creation of Israel based on fascist ideology, support for Mussolini's fascist regime.

Japanese Fascism
* Also called "right-socialism," class collaboration, nationalism, imperialism, some sort of corporate state (ask Rei Murasame more about this one).

National Bolshevism
* The result of a fusion between German nationalism and Bolshevik Socialism: state socialism, nationalism, worker-based without class struggle like Marxism (as far as I know), influenced by Stalinism somewhat.

What I can remember right now.

[Wolfman]

Awesome, thanks.

[Far-Right Sage]

Some other great movements:

Nasjonal Samling - Norwegian variant of Italian Fascism led by Vidkun Quisling; key tenets were corporatism as the basis of a healthy Lutheran state, recognition and incorporation of indigenous religion into national spiritual life (runic symbolism and the faith of the Vikings before Olaf), romantic nationalism, Nordicism, and the Führerprinzip.

The Portuguese Estado Novo - Some hardliners don't consider this Portuguese variant as pure Fascism, but it espoused corporatism, maintenance of national spiritual life and a Catholic state (more along the lines of Spain, far stronger than Italy, despite Mussolini's agreements with the Vatican), pride in the history of a Portuguese Empire and the advancement of said empire/colonialism, and Lusitanian integralist sentiment. Differed from Fascist Italy in that in practice it functioned more along authoritarian, rather than totalitarian lines. Failed in the wholist initiative, worthy of note.

Österreich's Fatherland's Front of Engelbert Dollfuß - Protection of traditional culture; independent way with rejection of Futurist sentiment in Italy, the racial nationalism espoused in Germany proper, the modernism of Western Europe/U.S., and the Bolshevism of the east. Believed in the preservation of a national mythology, portraying the Soviet Union as a represenative of the "new threat" from the East, which was originally embodied in Ottoman expansionism. More moderate economically - notable corporatist platform and support for Catholic social programs.

If I get a chance I'll post on the later post-WWI French variants, the militant factions they inspired such as La Cagoule, and their origins in Gobineau's 19th century works, which is an extensive topic in itself.

[Wolfman]

This title may have been inaccurate. I was trying to use Fascism as a general term for Fascism and other anti-democratic movements. So, also groups like... well, whatever the hell Dave is.

[Preston Cole]

Then you're also looking at authoritarian conservative, para-fascist movements like the Portugese and Brazilian Estado Novo, Franco's conservative Spanish State, Austrofascism, the German Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP), the South African National Party, etc.

Other para-fascist examples would be Ba'athist Iraq, but not conservative, and Peronism.

Then there's also the capitalist-authoritarian-nationalist hybrid of Pinochet, but that sort of three-headed monster isn't very widespread.

You really can't list all "anti-democratic" movements in one list, since that would also encompass Stalinism and Leninism.

PS. Dave would be a more conservative fascist, somewhere between Hitler and Pinochet, as his Political Compass places him well to the economic right of most other fascists here.

[Wolfman]

You really can't list all "anti-democratic" movements in one list, since that would also encompass Stalinism and Leninism.

Why I originally said "Fascism". I was hoping for general Right Wing and/or Conservative Anti-Democratic groups. I just wasn't clear on that.

Dave would be a more conservative fascist, as his Political Compass places him well to the economic right of most other fascists here.

He's Anti-Democratic, and doesn't strike me as a Fascist in any really significant way.

[Holt]

Dave is something of an oddity. His position comes across as somewhere between a classic American-style reactionary and a 21st century European revisionist. His visceral loathing of liberalism and Marxism, however, make him a natural fascist ally.