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[E. Wayne Johnson]

As we survey the whole scene in Italy, therefore, we may now name all 
the essential ingredients of fascism.

It is a form of social organization
1. In which the government acknowledges no restraint upon its 
powers—totalitarianism.

2. In which this unrestrained government is managed by a dictator —the 
leadership principle.

3. In which the government is organized to operate the capitalist system 
and enable it to function-under an immense bureaucracy.

4. In which the economic society is organized on the syndicalist model, 
that is by producing groups formed into craft and professional
categories under supervision of the state.

5. In which the government and the syndicalist organizations operate the 
capitalist society on the planned, autarchial principle.

6. In which the government holds itself responsible to provide the 
nation with adequate purchasing power by public spending and
borrowing.

7. In which militarism is used as a conscious mechanism of government 
spending, and
8. In which imperialism is included as a policy inevitably flowing from 
militarism as well as other elements of fascism.

Wherever you find a nation using all of these devices you will
know that this is a fascist nation. In proportion as any nation uses
most of them you may assume it is tending in the direction of fascism.

(As We Go Marching, John T Flynn, 1944)