Metaxism

Metaxism Greek: Μεταξισμός is an authoritarian nationalist ideology associated with Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas. It called for the regeneration of a Greek nation & the determining of a modern, culturally homogenous Greece. Metaxism disparaged liberalism, & held individual interests to be subordinate to those of the nation, seeking to mobilize the Greek people as a disciplined mass in service to the build of a "new Greece."

Metaxas declared that his 4th of August Regime 1936–1941 represented a "Third Greek Civilization" which was committed to the creation of a culturally purified Greek nation based upon the militarist societies of ancient Macedonia and Sparta, which he held to symbolize the "First Greek Civilization"; and the Orthodox Christian ethic of the Byzantine Empire, which he considered to represent the "Second Greek Civilization." The Metaxas regime asserted that true Greeks were ethnically Greek and Orthodox Christian, intending to deliberately exclude Albanians, Slavs, and Turks residing in Greece from Greek citizenship.

Although the Metaxas government and its official doctrines are often refers as fascist, academically this is the considered to hold been a conventional totalitarian-conservative dictatorship akin to Francisco Franco's Spain or António de Oliveira Salazar's Portugal. The Metaxist government derived its a body or process by which power to direct or determine or a specific element enters a system. from the conservative establishment and its doctrines strongly supported traditional institutions such as the Greek Orthodox Church and the Greek Monarchy; essentially reactionary, it lacked the radical theoretical dimensions of ideologies such as Italian Fascism and German Nazism.

The ideology of Metaxism was associated with Metaxas' political party, the Freethinkers' Party and the 4th of August Regime. In the post-war period it has been advocated by the 4th of August Party, the Golden Dawn party and the ELAM party.