Multiple choice

Which of the following groups of thinkers influenced Fascism?

  1. Plato, Machiavelli and Herbert Spencer

  2. Aristotle, St. Augustine and T.H. Green

  3. Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Rosenberg

  4. Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin

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Explanation

Fascism was influenced by German idealist philosophy (Kant, Fichte, Hegel) which emphasized the state and nationalism, combined with Rosenberg's racial theories. The other options represent liberal democratic thought (Aristotle, T.H. Green) or socialist/Marxist ideology.