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: benefited while ordinary people are neglected. The leaders always
think of their own betterment, they never care for the ordinary persons. So the poor people become poorer than before.
ii) Opposition of Individualism - In the fascism individuals have no importance. Everything is under state and nothing lies outside of it. So nobody can revolt against state. All social, political, ethical and legal issues of individuals are conducted by the state. One can develop his status by accepting the desire of state as his own desire.
iii) Refutation of the theory of Non-violence - The Fascism negate the theory of World Peace. According to Mussolini, the persons who talk of world peace are cowards. The world peace is totally ungenitive and unpractical. The enemy can be defeated by power not by peace. The Fascism compares peace with tank in which water becomes impure, without any movement. The improvement of a person depends on the disimprovement of others. Neither some society nor some state can develop in the absence of war. A man becomes coward when he thinks and talks about peace and compromise again and again.
iv) Opposition of Intellectualism - Fascism believes in feelings and not in intellect. In human life feeling is much more important than reasoning. One can achieve pleasure in his life due to his feeling not the intellect. Moreover it is not necessary that all decision may be accorded with reasons.
v) Negation of Internationalism - The notion of enhancement is the most valuable thing for the state and a state should do all things right or wrong for its own betterment. It should never think about the gain and loss of other countries. So in Fascism only nationalism matters not internationalism.
In this way Fascism has supported indolence openly. Nazism
Germany was defeated in the first world war, in 1918 and was demoralized by friend nations which compelled it to give some
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