ICSE Class 10 Answered

Following were five important aims of Fascism:

1. Fascism is essentially the anti-thesis of democracy. Fascists in Italy believed that democracy was not suitable for their country because it supposedly widened the gulf between the rich and the poor.
2. Fascists held the view that a country should have only one active political party and one supreme leader. It was a widely propagated Fascist belief that a country could progress only under one leader. This automatically boiled down to the argument that dictatorship was the best form of government.
3. Fascists favoured equal control over all sections of society. They wanted to control the capitalists, industrialists, labourers, landlords, peasants and artisans.
4. Fascists laid extreme stress on nationalism and considered that it was more important that individual institutions.
5. Fascists believed that the interests of the State must get precedence over individual interests because an individual gets all the rights from the State.