Label Disambiguation The meaning of fascism ranges from a political position that imposes an authority for action where none much exists to a variety of, usually, right-wing political ideologies. Dystopia The authoritarian-totalitarian overweening associated with fascism tends to associate it with right-wing, fundamentalist politics, but at the same time, this overweening also serves to move it outside of right-wing politics to the politics of a militaristic state and/or the politics of a police state. Thus, the right-wing association aside, and with an acknowledgment that fascism is not generally associated with left-wing politics, the fascist imposition of authority also marks it as an ideological mode of politics rather than an ideology of the left or the right per se. Panic Problem Past The Godfather of Fascism