There's more to it than that, Pharmakon. Fascism isn't simply imposing constraints on people who "have nothing to do with you." Societies are by definition groups of people of have something to do with each other, and any notion of law is going to encompass affairs that you might or might not be personally affected by. No one ever has "nothing to do" with others. Fascism is generally understood as an alliance between corporate, state, and nationalistic interests and ideologies, an alliance which claims to make legitimate the state's arbitrary power individual freedoms in the name of those interests. It's a very modern conglomeration; not totalitarian per se, but one that feeds easily into totalitarianism, as it did in Nazi Germany. |