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e can list the principle features of fascism as such concepts as
authoritarian or dictatorial state rule, and an aggressive
W foreign policy. But alongside all of these, its really dominant
characteristic is racism. When we look at the Nazi ideology, in particular,
we can see that it is racism that makes fascism what it is. The Nazis set out
with the dream of establishing the hegemony of the Aryan race, which
they believed to be superior, over the whole world, an idea on which all
their policies and social measures were based. In the words of Wilhelm
Reich, "The race theory is German fascism's theoretical axis." 78
Racism was also the fundamental ideology of other fascist regimes,
such as those of Mussolini and Franco, even if not to the extent it was in
Nazism. Mussolini suggested that the Romans who had governed the
Roman Empire were a "superior race," and that the Italians, as their
descendants, also possessed this superior nature. The conquest of
Ethiopia was based on this notion of the superior race, and that the black-
skinned Ethiopians need submit to the Italians, in accordance to what was
perceived as a natural racial hierarchy. Franco made similar claims for the
Spanish.
Japanese fascism, which developed before the Second World War,
and was part of the Hitler-Mussolini alliance, also possessed a "superior