Sometimes terms can be confusing, especially the “isms.” using the definitions provided, discuss how each of these terms differs from the others, and explain each term in your own words. one method might be to think of a specific situation and describe how it would look differently when referencing each of these terms. fascism: a system of government characterized by strong, often dictatorial control of political and economic affairs, and often by warlike nationalism and brutal suppression of political dissidents and ethnic minorities socialism: a political or economic theory in which community members own all property, resources, and the means of production, and control the distribution of goods nationalism: concern for or devotion to one's own nation, especially desire for national progress or independence communism: the theory of a classless social system in which all property and means of production are owned in common; socialist theory deriving from the works of karl marx and friedrich engels totalitarianism: designating a system of government in which power and authority are highly centralized and intrusive into the lives of private citizens, and in which neither opposing parties nor individual differences in opinion are allowed