I thought Fascism was Corporatist, as in Mussolini’s Italy, where there was close connection between big corporations, such as Fiat, and the Fascist state. Wasn’t this different from the national Socialism of the Nazi regime in Germany in which economic activity was completely controlled by an authoritarian state? Certainly, the current governments in the USA and Europe are more like the regime of Il Duce than they are of the Nazi state. Also, doesn’t Fascism require an external enemy to make war with as well as internal enemies to scapegoat?

Just a thought.

James Aloysius Joyce

“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”

James Joyce, Ulysses

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