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Fascism is inherently dependent on collective action. That is to say, the philosophical core of fascism that distinguishes it from other forms of collectivist authoritarianism is the recognition of violent struggle as the highest order of both the individual and social human experiences. Fascism is not conventionally militaristic in the sense of accruing power to the armed forces and maintaining an ever growing military force for its own sake. Rather, the military, the economy and the state as a whole serve merely as vehicles for the fulfillment of fascism's metaphysical promise; social catharsis through collective violent action - conventionally by way of military adventurism. It's accurate to state that with fascism, war is an enthusiastically anticipated inevitability, the whole socio-economic machinery is bent toward it. Whether this is "evil" is a much longer conversation.