I don't know. A BNP link is specific so rarely applicable, yet I seem to recall you using the word more than occasionally when referring to a number of Morrissey fans here and abroad. If that's so, your definition must be about much more than just BNP involvement. It isn't a label to throw around lightly, in these serious times.
George Monbiot says in this interview that fascism, admittedly usually far-right, above all needs billionaire backing, and seems to imply that by now, it's systemic.
"What we are asking people to do – to resist this monstrous system – is very difficult, but not as difficult as what other people have faced in the past...neo-liberal ideology has transformed a system that worked more or less in the interests of the people into one that works in the interests of big business...That’s what the right always says [i.e. recently, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said that the real problem is not climate change but demographics.] It’s a way of shifting the blame from consumers in the rich world to the poorest people on the planet...But there is a real demographic crisis, and that is the livestock crisis, which is growing by 2.4% a year..."
Novelist Umberto Eco draw up this diagnostic 14-point list to identify fascism:
- The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
- The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
- The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
- Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
- Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
- Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
- The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
- The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
- Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
- Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
- Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.
- Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
- Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
- Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
- ---- https://www.openculture.com/2016/11...ist-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
Eco reckons that the presence of just one of these traits can be the calling card for all the others i.e. they reinforce each other. Still, I and people I know sometimes display one or more of these traits, without turning into monsters. Scope for interpretation, and the variety of human nature should be allowed, imo. We're certainly on Russell Brand's page in churning over topics like this!
