They are still showing films of WW II where the Nazis invaded Europe and the fascist Italians helped. The news media often refers to those wicked totalitarian governments that are still around. We humans often use descriptive words that mean nothing at all, but they are used to mean things that can be described as bad. I have just looked up the words in Webster's Dictionary . I guess I had better look up fascist.
Fascist comes from the word fascio meaning a bundled group.
I feel kinda dumb right now. As I scratch my head, it seems that was like communism. Everybody united to obey the authority of the state. I wonder how that would look. I suppose they had an educational system which was enforced by the state and all the little kids had to go to it or be arrested for truancy.