  I edited my response before you posted your's. I'll switch that one back and put what I put there here. :cool:  The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist Stateâa synthesis and a unit inclusive of all valuesâinterprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people. - Benito Mussolini   At any rate, my heart's not really into debating this here. I agree with Fascism in one sense, disagree in another. I value individualism, but realize it has its strengths and weaknesses, much like the collectivism of Fascism.  I don't feel like debating this here or now either, that makes two of us! ha. But Fascism isn't completely opposed to individualism though. The Nazis sure weren't. It's not communism, it's not a classless idealogy. In a Fascist state you rise through the ranks of society based on your own merit, which is the way it should be if you ask me. The cream of the crop rises to the top so to speak. Which is what the fore founders of America intended when they established this once fine country. All men are created equal in other words you earn your rank in society through your own merits, not birth right as was the case in Europe. You have to earn it. I think the fore founders of America had some pretty Fascist tendencies in some regards. Thomas Jefferson even said every man should be not only a citizen but a soldier just as was the case in Rome and Sparta (I may not have the exact wording but it's pretty close.) That's sounding rather Fascist to me. Sounds like something you would read in Mein Kampf or hear from Mussolini.:cool: