The Difference Between Fascism and Socialism?

Easy. They are, by definition, polar opposites of each other. At the very least, Fascism is defined as being anti-Socialist.

In a nutshell, Fascism seems to believe that corporations should control the governent. Socialism believes that government should control corporations.

I'd like to add a link to the political compass site with its two-dimensional model of politics. Communism and Fascism are on totally different axes (so they aren't opposites either) since one is concerned with economic dirigism, the other with subduing individual rights.

http://politicalcompass.org/extremeright

Half of Yahoo Answers would be dead if people just stopped this one-dimensional name calling and specify what they don't like about another's views, and why.

For years, conservatives saw anything they don't like or anyone the disagree with as 'liberal'. So Hitler was liberal, Stalin was liberal, Pol Pot was liberal, etc. etc. Who could doubt, then, that liberalism was a great evil?

Newt Gingrich called President Clinton 'the most liberal president in US History'. This from a guy with a PhD in history! Objectively, Clinton wasn't really very liberal at all. He was to the right of any president I can remember before Reagan. But Gingrich just really didn't like Clinton, so he called him that.

Today the word 'liberal' has lost its meaning. It's been worn out like an overused SOS pad. So now even liberals call themselves 'progressive' (which is a better, word anyway, more specific). And Republicans have shifted to using the word 'socialist' for anyone they disagree with or anything they don't like. Obama is a socialist. Hillary is a socialist. Health care reform is 'socialized medicine'. Etc. etc.

Thanky you for trying to help but people who are going to argue that point also believed that Saddam the leader of a secular sunni muslim state influenced by Communism was harboring and supporting a Shite terroist group who hated everything Saddam represented.

You may as well not even bother. As you can see from the responses you've received, people don't understand and have no desire to understand. Just look at all the folks who think socialism means gov't control. Silly!

Fascism and socialism are both leftist ideologies. They can both coexist in the same government. Pre-WWII Germany and Italy were fascist socialist governments in their social and economic policies. No rational person can deny that they were very left wing governments.

Tycoons support fascism , for example US Tycoons, whenever they realize the danger of a successful Proletariat

Revolution.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/fordnazi.htm

They're nothing more than two sides of the same coin. One oppresses you in the name of "the people," the other in the name of "the state."

You're wasting your time. I have been trying to convince people on here for some time.

which is your question?