根据《在线辞源》，法西斯主义是 “一种政治行为的形式，其特点是对自己所属社区（人群、民族、国家）的衰落、被羞辱或作为受害者有一种强迫性的关注，以及对自己所属社区的团结、能量和纯洁的一种补偿性崇拜，在这种情况下，一个由坚定的民族主义激进分子组成的基于大众的政党，与传统精英进行不安但有效的合作，放弃民主自由，以救赎性的暴力和没有道德或法律约束的方式追求内部清洗和对外扩张的目标。[罗伯特-O-帕克斯顿，"法西斯主义的剖析"，2004年]
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, "The Anatomy of Fascism," 2004]
以下链接是时代周刊关于法西斯主义的介绍。