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Fascism Task Force is a task force of WikiProject Politics. The task force is aimed improve articles related to Fascism. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

The task force is related to Portal:Fascism.

[edit] Scope

The Fascism Task Force aimed to coordinate, expand, and generally enlarge Wikipedia's knowledge base regarding fascism from its origins in the early 20th century through its peak during World War II to its continuing influences today.

My primary intention when I started work on this was simply to catalog fascist movements. This has run into two primary problems:

Fascism both before and after World War II has seen lots of fragmentation and coalescence; see for example the whole tangle of nationalist, Nazi, and conservative parties which formed the British National Party.
The role of leaders and cults of personality in fascism as so great as to demand an expansion into biography.

[edit] Parameters

For purposes of this taskforce, I propose the following criteria:

In the case of a movement which came to power, such a movement shall be called "fascist" if it fulfills all of the following criteria:

exalting the nation, (and in some cases the race, culture, or religion) above the individual, with the state apparatus being supreme.
stressing loyalty to a single leader.^{[neutrality is disputed]}
using propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition.
engaging in severe economic and social regimentation.
engaging in syndicalist corporatism.
implementing totalitarian systems.

In the more common case that such a movement did not or has not yet come to power, it shall be called "fascist" if it meets six of the following seven criteria:

exalting the nation, (and in some cases the race, culture, or religion) above the individual, with the state apparatus being supreme.
stressing loyalty to a single leader.^{[neutrality is disputed]}
advocating propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition.
advocating severe economic and social regimentation.
advocating syndicalist corporatism.
advocating totalitarian systems.
declaring itself or holding itself out to be to be a fascist movement.

Obviously there will be many POV arguments, and much debate as to whether a particular person or movement is in fact "fascist" by the correct definition of the word. It should be noted for more specific fields, which are not one and the same as Fascism, such as Nazism has its own separate set of categorizes.

[edit] Goals

The goals of the Fascism taskforce are:

To substantively classify fascist movements;
To provide thorough backgrounds on said movements;
To integrate the development of fascism into a coherent historical unit;
To find reputable sources among the multitude of disreputable and sensationalist ones;
To particularly explore and develop information about non-Nazi non-Mussolini fascism.

[edit] and NOT

I would prefer to avoid too much debate over the definition of fascism; the above definition is well-established as drawn from Wikipedia's fascism article.
As above, I would prefer to be inclusionary and complete; if you can make an argument that something fulfills the criteria given above, it should be attached to this project even if this leads to counterintuitive conclusions (e.g. the Republicans are fascists, Democrats are fascists, Francisco Franco wasn't a fascist).
Also bear in mind that just because someone joined a fascist party that doesn't necessarily mean they were important fascist ideologues or contributors. List of fascists is, in my opinion, overzealous.
A big caveat: Not every hate group, not every nationalist group, and not every totalitarian group -- indeed, not every totalitarian nationalist hate group -- is necessarily fascist -- and not every fascist group is, in turn, a racist hate group.
Finally, this isn't a project on the Holocaust or the other ethnic, religious, and political persecutions and mass murders undertaken by fascist regimes, except inasmuch as those are consequences of fascist ideology. That said, Holocaust-remembrance groups and other such foundations seem to be good sources for information on fascist movements in both the past and present.

[edit] Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this taskforce. Please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment:

Stlemur
Morning star 21:34, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
DNewhall
Hauser
Oni Ookami Alfador
Curtsurly
Lurker 15:10, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
False Prophet
Keresaspa 17:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Ma'ath'a'yü (aka: Proofing) 16:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Deliogul 21:28, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
MChew 14:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC) - Joining to clean up Japanese portion
Jeffpw 23:00, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
NewYork1956 06:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Leopold III 20:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)Leopold III
Tristanad 05:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)Tristanad
Mcattell 16:54, 7 July 2007 (UTC) - Joining as part of effort to improve articles relating to Germany in the 1930s
Lighthead ^þ 02:35, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
EliasAlucard (talk · contribs) 21:21 30 Oct, 2007 (UTC) - Joined due to an interest in Fascism related topics, as well as being a general contributor
Palatinus Regni^! 17:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
vendion (talk) 18:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Dylansmrjones (talk) 23:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC) - Joining mostly due to my historical interests, and Fascism has (and to some extent still does) play a major role in the history of mankind.
Sickero (talk) 10:07, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Gennarous (talk) 08:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC) joining primarily to put articles in their correct category and location, for example Fascism, Nazism and backwards "hate groups" are sometimes lumped into the same category as if they were the same thing, need their own separate cats.
Gr8opinionater (talk) 14:11 July 27th 2008 (GMT) Im an ardent Anti Fascist but i am very interested in the ideology in general, particularly from a political and historical point of view.
Par4d0x (talk) 21:03 January 30th 2009 (UTC) I'm interested in the ideas of Fascism and its history.
Tcallahan 19:13 May 13 2009 (EST) Would like to help with anything having to do with the USSR.
Magibon website 07:20, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
caremerger 08:30 February 9 2010 (PST) Seeking to clarify the role of sovereign immunity as the authoritarian ordinate to fascism, corporatism, and other forms of collectivism.--Caremerger (talk) 16:44, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
--SomeDudeWithAUserName (talk with me!) 14:13, 25 March 2011 (UTC) I joined WikiProject LGBT Studies but I had nothing to offer so I think — and hope — that I will be helpful here. Thanks, Steve T. R.!
Sapere aude22 (talk) 10:55, 12 July 2011 (UTC) - I’m interested in the ideological origins of Italian fascism, especially in the influence of Georges Sorel’s political thought on Italian fascism.

[edit] Guestbook

This is a list of Wikipedians who are not committed to the taskforce, but who are sympathetic to the cause. Feel free to express your support by signing the list below!:

Dschor 13:20, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Durova 05:21, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Dogville 12:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
MGTom 14:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
jfdunphy 04:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Arctic-Editor 18:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Die4Dixie 17:59, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

See Category:Fascism templates for the complete list.

[edit] WikiProject Politics Banner

Use the following parameters in Template:WikiProject Politics in order to add article to Fascism task force:

| fascism = 
| fascism-importance =

fascism - Answer "yes" in order to add the article to Fascism task force.
fascism-importance - a rating of article's importance to that project.

[edit] Infoboxes

{{Fascism sidebar}}
{{Neo-Fascism}}

[edit] Stub templates

{{Fascism-stub}}
{{Nazi-stub}}

To propose new stub categories or templates, see Stub sorting criteria: Proposed new stubs

[edit] Other templates

{{WPF query}}

[edit] Userboxes

{{User WPF}}

[edit] Categories

Fascist newspapers and magazines

Fascist parties

Historians of fascism

► Third Position

Fascism stubs

[edit] Lists

Please make changes to this list at Portal:Fascism/Lists

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Fascism

Please feel free to list your new Fascism-related articles here. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page.

old suggestions

Free German Workers' Party - Keresaspa 16:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Friedhelm Busse - Keresaspa 16:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Russian Fascist Party - Keresaspa 18:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Parti Communautaire Européen - Keresaspa 18:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Joe McWilliams - --LC 00:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Parti Communautaire National-Européen - Keresaspa 18:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Gold Shirts and Nicolás Rodríguez Carrasco - Mixcoatl 19:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Christofascism (up for AfD) - Richard Arthur Norton 05:16, 20 December 2007
Fascist paramilitary, Fascism in North America, and Fascism in South America. Ecto (talk) 14:24, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Zaveshchanie russkogo fashista --Kolchak1923 (talk) 17:14, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Union of Fascist Little Ones --Kolchak1923 (talk) 13:39, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Russian Women's Fascist Movement --Kolchak1923 (talk) 12:50, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Union of Young Fascists – Vanguard (boys) --Kolchak1923 (talk) 23:36, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Union of Young Fascists – Vanguard (girls) --Kolchak1923 (talk) 14:07, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Lev Okhotin --Kolchak1923 (talk) 17:33, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Nash Put' (newspaper) --Kolchak1923 (talk) 07:50, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Fascist Union of Youth --Kolchak1923 (talk) 19:56, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Taliban
Abdur Rahman Khan

[edit] Requests

[edit] Proposed deletion

6 September - expires 11 September

Afrikaner Student Federation

20 December 2007

Christofascism

[edit] Improvement

Please help improve these two articles:

Abdur Rahman Khan (fascist person)
Taliban (fascist movement/regime/government)

Thanks. --Behnam 02:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Projects

Imperial Way Faction -- I think this article has the potential, with cleanup and a little more research, to be an FAC. Plenty of source material, significant topic, lot of low-hanging fruit. - Stlemur 23:31, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

It's not just Imperial Way Faction it's pretty much all the pages about Japan during this time period that need work. Almost every link listed at the bottom of the page has a "This article need so be cleaned up..." header and some topics overlap quite a bit. - DNewhall

Perhaps Japan is a bad place for us to start as a group, considering the huge level of dubiousness surrounding Japanese fascism and the anger it tends to incite among various contributors who tend to see the labelling of these movements as fascist as a personal insult! Why don't we start off with a focus on Italy, where it all effectively began? Or perhaps, considering that topic has already been beaten to death, other European fascist movements that are actually regarded as being fascist (e.g. the Iron Guard in Romania, the Ustashe in Croatia, etc).

This is true however the Japanese related articles are already created and they are just really bad. A lot of them have paragraphs that seem to have been translated from some language using an online translator or something and information is repeated along numerous articles. While I understand that focusing on European movements would be less controversial the Japanese one's are the ones that have problems now. - DNewhall

Perhaps the project needs to actively recruit a english-japanese bilingual for this. The ommission of Japan is serious in the long-term and in the short term may shed some light on common factors in fascism given the great historical differences of Japan from Europe. Pacificbiblio 16:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Resources

Langer, Elinor. A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America. New York: Henry Holt, 2003.

Schom, Allan Morris: A Survey of Nazi and Pro-Nazi Groups in Switzerland: 1930-1945. A lot of information on Swiss Nazi groups that could be used to create dozens of articles

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