While fascism in Italy and Germany shared some common values, there were also differences between them. Both regimes aimed for totalitarian control over public and private life, with an unmediated relationship between the leader and people. However, Italian fascism pursued a corporatist "third way" model and viewed itself as modernizing, while German fascism emphasized racial theories and an anti-Semitic, expansionist form of nationalism seeking "living space" for the Aryan race.

1. Fascist regimes and movements Thursday 27 March 2008

2. Whilst it is possible to identify a common set of fascist values and principles, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany represent different versions of fascism. They were inspired by distinctive and sometimes rival beliefs.

3. Italian fascism

4. Fascism and the state

5. Statism

6. Totalitarianism

7. Fascism and Totalitarianism

8. Fascism tends towards totalitarianim in at least 3 respects

9. Obliteration of the distinction between 'public' and 'private'

10. Unmediated relationship between the leader and the people

11. Single value system and single source of truth

12. 'Everything for the state; nothing against the state; nothing outside the state' Mussolini

13. Hegel

14. The state as a 'vessel' Hitler

15. Hitler regime and totalitarianism

16. Italian state and totalitarianism

17. Corporatism

18. Fascists seek to transform human consciousness rather than social structures

19. 'Third Way'

20. Corporatism

21. Holistic vision

22. Class relations have to be mediated by the state

23. 'Corporate state'

24. Modernisation

25. Agent of modernisation

26. Backward v. Forward looking

27. Futurism

28. Fascism and racialism

29. Voluntarism

30. Militant nationalism

31. The politics of race

32. Race

33. Racialism

34. Aryan race

35. Conservative nationalism

36. Biblical justification

37. Bilogically based racial theories

38. Nazi race theories

39. Anti-Semitism

40. 'Science of race'

41. Joseph-Arthur Gobineau

42. H.S. Chamberlain

43. Teutons

44. Nazis blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in 1918

45. pseudo-religious

46. Herrenvolk

47. 'bearers of culture'

48. 'destroyers of culture'

49. Manichaean

50. Expansionism

51. The Nuremburg Laws, 1935

52. 'final solution'

53. Peasant Ideology

54. Nazism anti-modern

55. 'Blood and Soil'

56. Kultur

57. Lebensraum

58. Contradiction

59. Peasant ideology rhetoric

60. Militarism and cultural shifts