Fascism is just capitalist dictatorship at extreme end of the scale, depending on the current intensity of the class struggles. So right now the current capitalist states use their fake 'civil rights', 'morality' and 'human rights' to placate the oppressed workers'. But when fascism was big, back in the Depression - people were driven by economic desperation and the failure of capitalism to the liberation of Communism, so because workers' movements were so powerful back then the elite of capitalists CREATED fascism to combat the worker's and ensure capitalism would survive. This was done by the fascist regimes of Europe utilizing the most brutal forms of state repression and violence to destroy worker's rights', doing things even the 'democratic' capitalist states abhorred.