Fascism vs Nazism: race marks the dividing line
Over 5,000 Jews were members of the National Fascist Party. The difference between fascism and Nazism lies in race.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
Fascism and Nancy: not the same thing, race explains it
Five thousand Jews were members of the National Fascist Party. In the National Socialist Party, such a figure would have been unthinkable. The contrast captures the difference between two regimes that everyday language merges into one.
The textbook answer: Nancy is a form of fascism with a racial and antisemitic component. Italian fascism, by contrast, did not make race its central axis: its enemy was political, not existential. The introduction of the racial laws in Italy in 1938, pushed through under German pressure, removed Jews from all influence; until then, their presence in the party was a fact of life.
Economy and class: where they converge
Both ideologies reject class struggle, uphold private property and subordinate it to the State or to war aims. The divergence lies in the concept of the nation: fascism looked to the multiethnic Roman Empire; Nancy placed the racial community at the centre of everything.
Francoism appears in the comparison as a harsh regime during its postwar years (1939-1960), anti-partisan from the fifties onward, but not expansionist. Totalitarian or not, its logic was survival, not conquest.
If fascism did not need a racial enemy, was Nancy a radicalisation or a different species altogether? The answer remains open.
Five thousand Jews were members of the National Fascist Party. In the National Socialist Party, such a figure would have been unthinkable. The contrast captures the difference between two regimes that everyday language merges into one.
The textbook answer: Nancy is a form of fascism with a racial and antisemitic component. Italian fascism, by contrast, did not make race its central axis: its enemy was political, not existential. The introduction of the racial laws in Italy in 1938, pushed through under German pressure, removed Jews from all influence; until then, their presence in the party was a fact of life.
Economy and class: where they converge
Both ideologies reject class struggle, uphold private property and subordinate it to the State or to war aims. The divergence lies in the concept of the nation: fascism looked to the multiethnic Roman Empire; Nancy placed the racial community at the centre of everything.
Francoism appears in the comparison as a harsh regime during its postwar years (1939-1960), anti-partisan from the fifties onward, but not expansionist. Totalitarian or not, its logic was survival, not conquest.
If fascism did not need a racial enemy, was Nancy a radicalisation or a different species altogether? The answer remains open.
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