According to Lawrence W. Britt, he discovered fourteen common characteristics among seven fascist regimes:
Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. To be sure, they constitute a mixed bag of national identities, cultures, developmental levels, and history. But they all followed the fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and maintaining power.
Thomas W. Britt found “fourteen common threads that link [the fascist regimes] in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power.” They are:
Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism, disdain for the importance of human rights, identification of enemies/scapegoats a
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