Alternate terminology: Different word for fascism

Well, Nazi Germany wasn't fascist, it was national socialist. There are many key differences.

There were plenty of differances between Mussolini and Hitler's regimes, but also between either of those regimes and Franco or the Ustasha or whatever. Either "Fascism" is a general term for a phenomenon of right-wing statist nationalism arising in the in the 1920s and 30s and having clear intellectual roots in common as noted in the excellent essay by Eco somebody has linked (there's a longer version also available on the web); or it refers only to the Italian iteration.
 
Fascism as a term relates to the "fasces cord" , the axe with the bunch of sticks tied around it that was originally carried by the lictores of the roman republic . It was depicted on the fascist italian flag , methinks . A german analogy would be "Bund" , like the pro-nazi German-American Bund of the U.S.
 
If Goerge Sorel's influence is still alive we can opt for National-Syndicalism. In fact that was the "academic" name of the spanish Falange ideology. Also National-revolucionaries could be an adjetive since many fascist or philo-fascist movements calimed for the "national revolution". Or in a more orwellian way, the could be called National-Democrats, a term used by som neo-fascists parties nowadays.
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Can't use Bundism, since that was the secular Jewish socialist movement.

Integralism or Neo-integralism or Integral Nationalism are good picks I think, and could give Fascism the impression of being a slightly older ideology by claiming lineage, which its proponents might be looking for.
 
Since we are talking about a name the "fascists" would give themselves, I suggest "New Democracy". The symbol would be a rising sun and they would call themselves the New Democrats or the NewDems. Of course, their actual ideololgy would have as much relationship to democracy as the Nazis did to socialism or the Fascists did to the traditions of the Roman Republic but that isn't the point. The point is something that sounds new and modern and catchy which can be hammered home through relentless propoganda. "Not the old, failed dmeocracy of the inept ruling class but the new democracy of the united national will". Or some such swill.

AH
 

Spengler

Banned
If fasicism takes on a more spiritual national characteristic it might be called national redemption.Focusing on both revenge for perceived slights from other nations and a spiritual revolution against the "excesses" of society.
 
If it develops in Germany: perhaps Reichism;

If it develops in France: probably Revanchism as said;

If it develops in Britain: as IBC said, probably Unionism;

If the Spanish Nationalists still appear, maybe Falangism or a more anglicized Phalanxism...

Some Russian named Bastardosky invents Bastardism after a White Russian victory in the RCW.

In all seriousness, what would a fascism that originated in Russia be called?

EDIT ADD: Something developed from the ideas of this guy...
 
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