Research Paper on:
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Benito Mussolini's The Doctrine of Fascism

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well as differences. For example, Nationalism is a devotion and a loyalty to ones nation above all others. It is essentially based on supporting that nation, its culture, its history,  and its own interests above all other nations. With Fascism we have more of a political and philosophical ideal that often involves the promotion of nation as well as race  in a system that is often led by a dictorial leader of sorts. There are severe economic and social restrictions which force people to uphold the ideals of the Fascist  regime. With that simple information at hand the following paper examines, first of all, Mussolinis "The Doctrine of Fascism," and then "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich  Remarque. The paper then provides an analysis of the two together. Fascism According to Mussolini Mussolini states that, "There is no concept of the State which is not  fundamentally a concept of life: philosophy or intuition, a system of ideas which develops logically or is gathered up into a vision or into a faith, but which is always,  at least virtually, an organic conception of the world." As such he argues that "fascism could not be understood in many of its practical manifestations as a party organization, as  a system of education, as a discipline, if it were not always looked at in the light of its whole way of conceiving life, a spiritualized way. The world seen  through Fascism is not this material world which appears on the surface, in which man is an individual separated from all others and standing by himself, and in which he  is governed by a natural law that makes him instinctively live a life of selfish and momentary pleasure" (Mussolini). He indicates that the man, the individual, is actually an