Fascism is a
radical authoritarian nationalist political
ideology.
Fascists seek rejuvenation of their
nation based on commitment to an organic national community where its individuals are united together as one people in
national identity by
suprapersonal connections of
ancestry,
culture, and
blood through a
totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through
discipline,
indoctrination,
physical education, and
eugenics.
Fascism seeks to purify the nation of foreign influences that are deemed to be causing
degeneration of the nation or of not fitting into the national culture.
Fascists have commonly presented themselves as politically
syncretic—opposing firm association with any section of the
left-right spectrum, considering it inadequate to describe their beliefs, and being critical of the
left,
right, and
centre.
However, fascism's goal to promote the rule of people deemed innately superior while seeking to purge society of people deemed innately inferior is a prominent
far-right stance.