Fascism is a right wing nationalist ideology that has acquire a really bad reputation throughout history due to mistakes that were made under this ideology. Even though the word itself makes it sound incredibly terrible and evil, there are still some positive sides to it. In this article, we are looking at the pros and cons of fascism so we can learn a little bit more about it.
The Pros of Fascism
1. Class Equality
Fascism is incredibly authoritarian and as such the higher classes of the nation are controlled by the government, as well as corporations. This means that the richest people in the country would need to share with the poorest people in the country and that would promote class equality. Ideally, the extremely poor class would be eradicated, as well as the extremely rich class.
2. Higher Priority to the Country
Fascism gives an incredibly huge priority to the nation itself and this means that both national culture and national defenses would rise to incredible extents because of the investments that would be made in these areas. In fact, most of the available resources would go to support the nation’s defenses and cultural improvements, improving the overall look of the nation to the eyes of the world.
3. War on Pollution
Since the nation and culture are priorities this means that pollution would be something to tackle – it would hurt culture and the environment. The government would probably do some bold moves to reduce the amount of pollution emitted and to stop the environment from being destroyed.
The Cons of Fascism
1. Lack of Free Speech
Liberal governments usually allow free speech and allow their citizens to think whatever they want to think, even if they think and speak terrible things against the government. With fascism, this isn’t true at all. People aren’t allowed to say what they want to say and they can think whatever they want to think, as long as they hide their thoughts well enough from the rest of the world. Even the press would be censored in order to promote the government and the thoughts that they wanted to implemented into the minds of the people.
2. Lack of Incentives for Industries
Since industries would be pretty much controlled by the government, this means that big producers would have no reason to go into the nation and lose their power to the government of that nation. Even though the country could make its own industry it would never work as well as a privately owned industry because ownership would be a deterring factor in the advances of the business. On top of that, public funds are limited and their distribution would spark heavy debates every now and then.
