Editing Fascism (section)

===Anti-democratic and tyrannical===
{{See also|Criticism of democracy}}
[[File:Hitler and Franco at Hendaye (en.wiki).jpg|thumb|upright|Hitler and Spanish dictator [[Francisco Franco]] in the [[Meeting at Hendaye]], on 23 October 1940{{sfnp|Lowe|2006|p=250}}{{sfnp|Paxton|2004|p=149}}]]
One of the most common and strongest criticisms of fascism is that it is a [[tyranny]].{{sfnp|Boesche|2010|p=11}} Fascism is deliberately and entirely non-democratic and anti-democratic.{{sfnmp|1a1=Clarke|1a2=Foweraker|1y=2001|1p=540|Pollard|1998|2p=121|Griffin|1991|3p=42}}

Fascism's extreme authoritarianism and nationalism often manifest as a belief in [[racial purity]] or a [[master race]], usually blended with some variant of [[racism]] or [[discrimination]] against a demonized "[[Other (philosophy)|Other]]", such as [[Jews]], [[homosexuals]], [[transgender people]], [[ethnic minorities]], or [[immigrants]]. These ideas have motivated fascist regimes to commit [[massacre]]s, [[forced sterilizations]], [[deportation]]s, and [[genocide]]s.{{sfnmp|1a1=Kallis|1y=2011|1p=|2a1=Paxton|2y=1998|2p=|3a1=Lancaster|3y=2011|3pp=366–368}} During [[World War II]], the genocidal and imperialist ambitions of the fascist [[Axis powers]] resulted in the murder of millions of people. [[Federico Finchelstein]] wrote that fascism {{blockquote|...encompassed [[totalitarianism]], [[state terrorism]], [[imperialism]], [[racism]] and, in the German case, the most radical genocide of the last century: [[the Holocaust]]. Fascism, in its many forms, did not hesitate to kill its own citizens as well as its colonial subjects in its search for ideological and political closure. Millions of civilians perished on a global scale during the apogee of fascist ideologies in Europe and beyond.{{sfnp|Finchelstein|2008|p=320}}}}