Slag, I didn't define fascism and wouldn't even try in this forum - and snippits from Wiki, which Sawzaw likes, hardly does it either. I had a class in modern European history a few years ago that took a couple of week to discuss what is is and isn't. My objection, as noted earlier, is to people who don't really understand it but use it as an expletive...as in "you shitbird, you fascist, you SOB".