I prefer the more general term "fascism" (of which Nazism was a specific variety.) Fascism is:
"... a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
-- Robert O. Paxton, 'Anatomy of Fascism' [4267] Kindle edition.
Paxton adds these supplementary points on Fascism, and what he calls its “mobilizing passions:”
-- A sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions.
-- The primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it.
-- The belief that one's group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external.
-- Dread of the group's decline under the effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences.
-- The need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary.
-- The need for natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group's historical destiny.
-- The superiority of the leader's instincts over abstract and universal reason.
-- The beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success.
-- The right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint from any kind of human or divine law, right being decided by the sole criterion of the group's prowess within a Darwinian struggle.
I prefer the more general term "fascism" (of which Nazism was a specific variety.) Fascism is:
"... a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
-- Robert O. Paxton, 'Anatomy of Fascism' [4267] Kindle edition.
Paxton adds these supplementary points on Fascism, and what he calls its “mobilizing passions:”
-- A sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions.
-- The primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it.
-- The belief that one's group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external.
-- Dread of the group's decline under the effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences.
-- The need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary.
-- The need for natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group's historical destiny.
-- The superiority of the leader's instincts over abstract and universal reason.
-- The beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success.
-- The right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint from any kind of human or divine law, right being decided by the sole criterion of the group's prowess within a Darwinian struggle.
It's tough to argue with an argument that well supported. 🤗
For the record, I don't have all that memorized. Since I use it so often, I have a text file dedicated to the subject and just copy&paste as needed.