a face in the cloud no trace in the crowd

We wanted to find love
We wanted success
Until nothing was enough
Until my middle name was excess
And somehow I lost touch
When you went out of sight
When you got lost into the city
Got lost into the night


So will we die of shock?
Die without a trial
Die on Good Friday
While holding each other tight
This is kind of about you
This is kind of about me
We just kind of lost our way
But we were looking to be free

But one day we'll float
Take life as it comes

Fascism ( /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2] Fascists seek rejuvenation of their nation based on commitment to an organic national community where its individuals are united together as one people in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood through a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through discipline, indoctrination, physical education, and eugenics.[3][4] It seeks to purify the nation of foreign influences that are causing degeneration of the nation or that do not fit into the national culture.[5] It is opposed to many ideologies, including conservatism, liberalism, and two major forms of socialism: communism and social democracy.[6] It opposes a variety of economic, political and social systems, it is opposed to democracy, parliamentary systems, in most cases has an inherently anti-clerical background with some exceptions, and holds a distinctive opposition to capitalism.[7] The fascist state is led by a supreme leader who exercises a dictatorship over the fascist movement, the government and other state institutions.[8] Fascism's basis of legitimacy of this state is its conception of the nation and its well-being in qualitative values and belief that a nation must be led by qualitatively-able leaders while rejecting democracies for being based on quantitative evaluation of individuals and their opinions rather than qualities.[9] It supports action, discipline, hierarchy, spirit, and will and rejects universal egalitarianism, materialism, and rationalism.[10] To achieve its goals, fascists purge forces, ideas, people, and systems deemed to be the cause of decadence and degeneration.[11] It claims to represent a synthesis of cohesive ideas previously divided between traditional political ideologies.[12]

Fascism promotes political violence and war as actions that create national regeneration, spirit and vitality.[3][13] It views violence as a fact of life that is a necessary means to achieve human progress.[14] It exalts militarism as providing positive transformation in society and providing spiritual renovation, education, instilling of a will to dominate in people's character and creating national comradeship through military service.[15] Fascists commonly utilize paramilitary organizations for violent attacks on opponents or to overthrow a political system.[16]

Fascism supports a socially united, collective national society and opposes socially divided class-based societies (including liberal bourgeois and Marxian proletarian class-based societies) and socially-divided individualist-based society.[17] Fascists claim it is a trans-class movement, advocating resolution to domestic class conflict within a nation to secure national solidarity.[18] While fascism opposes domestic class conflict, it favours a proletarian national culture and claims that its goal of nationalizing society levels social classes and emancipates the nation's proletariat, and promotes the assimilation of all classes into proletarian national culture.[19] It opposes contemporary bourgeois class-based society and culture for allegedly being based on selfish and hedonistic individualism that results in plutocracy and war profiteering at the expense of the nation.[20] Fascism claims that bourgeois-proletarian conflict primarily exists in national conflict between proletarian nations versus bourgeois nations; fascism declares support for the victory of proletarian nations.[21]

Fascists advocate: a state-directed, regulated economy that is dedicated to the nation; the use and primacy of regulated private property and private enterprise contingent upon service to the nation or state; the use of state enterprise where private enterprise is failing or is inefficient; and autarky.[22] It supports criminalization of strikes by employees and lockouts by employers as illegal acts it deems these acts as prejudicial to the national community as a whole.[23]

Fascism was founded during World War I by Italian national syndicalists who combined left-wing and right-wing political views, but Italian Fascism gravitated to the right in the early 1920s.[24][25] Mussolini in 1919 described fascism as a syncretic movement that would strike "against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left".[26][27] Italian Fascists described fascism as a right-wing ideology in the political program The Doctrine of Fascism: "We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right,' a fascist century."[28][29] However they also officially declared that although they were "sitting on the right" they were generally indifferent to their position on the left-right spectrum, as being a conclusion of their combination of views rather than an objective, and considering it insignificant to their basis of their views that they claimed could just as easily be associated with "the mountain of the center" as with the right.[30] There is a running dispute among scholars about where along the left/right spectrum that fascism resides.[31][32][33][34]