>>7505Fascism is a system that is ultra right-wing, ultra-nationalistic, which involves a highly centralized economy, a highly centralized government, a strong combination of military and secret police rolled into control of the government that seeks to create and maintain and protect hierarchies in the country. So those hierarchies can be based on gender, race, political affiliation, whatever. Hierarchy is what's important in fascism is that hierarchies exist and those are protected. This is where the patriarchy comes in. Patriarchy is hierarchical.
By this definition Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, China and Soviet Union/Russia would be considered fascist. Patriarchy is well and alive in these former and current countries.
The only spectrum that exists in politics that matters is on one end anarchy and libertarianism, where you seek to abolish the existence of unjust hierarchy and all the others.