Quote Originally Posted by AntiochusIII

PJ: I think fascism is a very strange ideology that cannot be applied to real life in any "good" fashion. You see, it is an aggressive appeal to the most macho and masochistic of our essence. Violence, expansion, control, an external enemy, national glory, moral superiority, domination...

Just about the worst choice, really. The communist and theocratic regimes tend to have their occasional reigns of terror; fascism is a perpetual one.

They usually maintain a haphazard quasi-monopoly economy where the Very Very Rich Men supports the government in exchange for economic monopoly.

Fascism - done well - takes the best elements of all the major ideologies.

It is just important that there is a clear methodology in selecting the leadership. That's where things went wrong in the '30s. :)