[[Image:Images.jpg|The second most notorious fascist symbol, after the swastica.]]
The 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted that fascism is: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with [[Bush regime|belligerent nationalism]]." [http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0719-15.htm]