British Fascism

British Fascism refers to the form of fascism promoted by political parties and movements in Britain. British fascism was based on British nationalism. Fascist movements in Britain included the British Fascists (1923-1934), the Imperial Fascist League (1929-1939), and the British Union of Fascists (1932-1940).

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 its economic and its 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 centralised 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".

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.

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