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British Fascism refers to the form of fascism promoted by political parties and movements in Britain.〔Thomas P. Linehan. ''British fascism, 1918-39: parties, ideology and culture''. Manchester, England, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. 14.〕 British Fascism is based upon British nationalism.〔Richard C. Thurlow. ''Fascism in Britain: from Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts to the National Front''. 2nd edition. New York, New York, USA: I. B. Taurus & Co. Ltd., 2006. Pp. 133-134.〕 The major, official British Fascist movements in Britain included the British Fascists, British Union of Fascists, and the Imperial Fascist League. ==Ideological origins== British Fascism acknowledges itself being based upon the inspiration and legacy of Italian Fascism but also states that it is not a mere application of a foreign ideology, but that British Fascism is rooted within British traditions.〔 British Fascism claims that both their economic and political agenda intends to embody that of Tudor England.〔 It claims that its advocacy of a centralized national authoritarian state is based upon the Tudor state's hostility to party factions and self-interested sectional interests, and its goal of national integration through a centralized authoritarian state.〔 They claim that the Tudor state was a prototype fascist state.〔 British Fascist A. L. Glasfurd praised Henry VIII's subjugation of "lawless barons who had brought about the War of the Roses" and praised the "Tudor dictatorship" for its enacting of national policies, restricting the export of English capital by self-serving private speculators.〔 Glasford also praised the Tudor state for instituting a planned economy that he claimed was a predecessor of the "scientific" national economic planning of fascism.〔 British Fascism also claims the legacy of Oliver Cromwell; Oswald Mosley claimed Cromwell brought about "the first fascist age in England".〔Julie V. Gottlieb, Thomas P. Linehan. ''The culture of fascism: visions of the Far Right in Britain''. New York, New York, USA: I. B. Taurus & Co Ltd, 2004. Pp. 152.〕 English political theorist Thomas Hobbes in his work ''Leviathan'' (1651) created the ideology of absolutism that advocated an all-powerful absolute monarchy to maintain order within a state, Hobbes' theory of absolutism was highly influential in fascist theory.〔Contemporary Political Theory: New Dimensions, Basic Concepts and Major Trends. 12th Edition. New Delhi, India: Sterling Publishers Private Ltd, 2007. Pp. 705.〕 British Fascism claims that its economic policy which advocates corporatism is based upon England's historical medieval guild system with its enlightened regulation of wages, prices and conditions of labour as being the ideal precedents for a British Fascist corporatist economic system.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British Fascism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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