I hope some of the scholars here make some contributions. I’d like to see some serious responses.
As I understand it, all these began with Marxism, Karl Marx’s theory/philosophy that people would identify with others who did what they did and come together to overthrow ‘the ruling class’. Or to put it more plainly, he believed that Polish plumbers would have feelings of solidarity with French and Italian plumbers rather than with Polish pilots and architects. This turned out to be false. It turns out that people do love their own languages, their histories, their cultures, and his ‘vision’ never came to fruition.
Hitler founded the National Socialist Party, with emphasis on the ‘national’ bit. His fight with the Communists was that they didn’t share the national notion. Hence his desire to eliminate the Communists.
Fascism is a little different. Fascia is the Italian word for sheaf. It Italy, the Communist Party is symbolized by a sheaf of wheat to indicate that you might break a single stalk of wheat, but you cannot break a sheaf of it. Likewise paper. You can tear a sheet, but not a sheaf of papers. Pascism holds that everything must come under the control of the State. We had a demonstration of this when 0bama was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017 and March 25-30, he invited GM CEO Rick Wagoner to the WH and had him step down - under duress. Causing duress is vitally important to fascists. In a fascist model, the gov’t. benevolently permits free enterprise, but it determines who the players will be - who’ll be the customers, what they will pay, etc.. This is what we had with 0bamacare. Insurance cos. were still in business, but they were told who the customers would be (everyone) and what the ins. cos. were permitted to charge.
I hope others chime in and help clarify my thoughts. I thank them in advance.
But Hitler really didn’t care for German culture, especially the Prussians, which he despised. He wanted to create a new German Culture, in line with his twisted beliefs.
Which is basically what our modern-day Fascists in this country want to do. Create a new culture in this country, and force everyone to comply with it.