How Does Communism & Fascism

Reject Liberalism?
1.7 analyze individualism as a foundation of ideology (principles of liberalism:
individual rights and freedoms, self-interest, competition, economic freedom,
rule of law, private property)
2.3 appreciate that individuals and groups may adhere to various ideologies
2.9 evaluate ideological systems that rejected principles of liberalism
(Communism in the Soviet Union, fascism in Nazi Germany)

Instructions:
Find one example for each of how Communism and
Fascism reject the various characteristics of liberalism.
You may use the examples on the last 2 slides/pages.

Characteristics of

Self- Interest
Individual Rights & Freedoms
Private Property
Profit Motive

Freedom of speech

Individual Rights & Freedoms

Freedom of association

Competition

Individual Rights & Freedoms

Economic Freedom

Individual Rights & Freedoms

Rule of Law
Voting in a Multi-party
system
Human Rights

Freedom of the press/media

Freedom of religion

Individual Rights & Freedoms

Freedom of peaceful assembly

Characteristics of
Liberalism Rejected by

Private Property
Profit Motive

Individual Rights & Freedoms

Freedom of speech

Competition

Individual Rights & Freedoms

Self- Interest

Individual Rights & Freedoms

Economic Freedom
Rule of Law
Voting in a Multiparty system
Human Rights

Freedom of association
Freedom of the press/media

Individual Rights & Freedoms

Freedom of religion

Individual Rights & Freedoms

Freedom of peaceful assembly

Immediately after the Russian Revolution, books

were treated with less severity than newspapers,
but the nationalizing of printing presses and
publishing houses brought them under control.
Libraries were purged. In 1922, the deportation of
writers and scholars warned that no deviation was
permitted, and pre-publication censorship was
reinstated. During the purges, textbooks were
often so frequently revised that students had to
do
without them.
Emergency
measures under Lenin that included a
drastic change to shared wealth, no profit motive,
complete cooperation for the common good &
public ownership of the land.
Anyone expected to be an opponent or to be
against Stalin were dealt with violently. Between
the years 1934 and 1938 around 10 million people
were deported to gulags and/or executed.

Italy under Mussolini promoted a corporatist

economic system whereby employer and
employee organizations are linked together in
associations to collectively represent the
nation's economic producers and work
alongside the state to set national economic
policy.
The power of the Executive to cast a man into
prison without formulating any charge known
to the law, and particularly to deny him the
judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree
odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian
government whether Nazi or Communist.
--Winston Churchill
The issue today is the same as it has been
throughout all history, whether man shall be
allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a
small elite.
--Thomas Jefferson

Marxist-Leninist states share similar institutions, which

are organized on the premise that the communist party is
a vanguard of the proletariat and represents the longterm interests of the people. The doctrine of democratic
centralism, which was developed by Vladimir Lenin as a
set of principles to be used in the internal affairs of the

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