Totalitarianism in Italy and Germany:

From Democracy to Fascism

Introduction

Definition of Fascism

http://www.legionxxiv.org/fasces%20page/

Mussolini and Italy

Partito Nazionale Fascista

The Nature of Italian Society under Fascism

“Everything for the state, nothing against the state, no one outside the state.”

Corporazioni or Corporations

Hitler and Germany

The Nature of Nazi Society under Hitler

coordination

“one great movement of obeying, belonging, and believing”

Hitler’s Anti-Jewish Policy

Fascism in Retrospect

Latin America in the 1920s and 1930s:

Resistance to Neo-Colonialism

Introduction

Before 1900

Dependency Caudillos

Rise of liberalism “order and progress” leads to

more of the same … two-class system

Economic and Social Development after 1900

Some urbanization, development of middle class and working class

Mexican Revolution 1911 WW I

Import substitution industrialization

Failure of Democratic Capitalism … search for new approaches

Indigenismo

Peru

Mexico (ejidos; Cardenas)

Brazil (Vargas)

Conclusions—Corporatism in Latin America