The political organisation of a dictatorship is simple, especially of the Fascist dictatorship. The State is ruled by one man usually called the Leader, or by one party which possesses supreme power. No other political party is allowed to exist. The ideal of Nazism and Fascism was “one Reich (i.e. state), one people, one leader.” The State controls and regulates everything, and every activity of the citizens. The Fascists worshipped the State. As Mussolini said, “The State is to be all-embracing; outside it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have any value. Fascism is totalitarian,”
The Fascist ideal of the State is expressed thus: “Everything for the State; nothing outside it and nothing against it.” The individual has no rights, but has many duties. He has to render absolute and unquestioning obedience to the Leader. Mussolini put it thus: the duties of a citizen are “To believe (in the Leader), to obey, to fight.” The Nazis twisted the old commandment to “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s” as thus, “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and render also unto Caesar what belongs to God.” In simple words, the Nazi and Fascist Dictators abolished the distinction between religion and politics and brought religion and church under the control of the State.
Communist dictatorship is opposed to religion and seeks to abolish it altogether. Nationalist dictatorship usually endeavours to separate religion from politics, as did Kemal Ataturk of Turkey, or later Nasser of the U.A.R. In other words Fascist dictatorship subordinates religion to the State, Communist dictatorship abolishes it altogether, while nationalist dictatorship separates politics from religion.