All the classical fascist regimes were so stable and long lived
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One of the things I actually didn't realize until recently was that at the time Nazis were known for privatizing businesses - selling them off to fund their huge deficit caused by military spending. The picture is not as uncomplicated as the armchair libertarian would think
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It’s tricky to look at fascism as a “system” like Marxism or Liberalism it kind of grew and changed over time and in different contexts. Early and late (RSI) Mussolini had FA in common. Still, it definitely wasn’t right wing enough, il give you that, but it’s right nonetheless
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On a plane so will get later. But all of the fascists or near-fascists like Evola and so on were very clear the economic platform was just opportunistic and not central to the project. Its econ system survived and did well, but not in the intended “fascist” context
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Are the intentions of fascist intellectuals the crux, though? Social function is the criterion. Stuff works or it doesn't, regardless of what World Ice Theory demands.
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No and they tended to get wiped out by the actual functioning of fascism, but if we use the Stalinist “barrier to revolution” definition than literally everything is fascist since the Depression. Maybe...
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Accepting the idea of a fully laissez faire capitalist economy as the baseline from which to judge Left or Right is insane, openly self serving, and historically totally illiterate tbh
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This sounds like empty spluttering to me, but I'm obviously biased.
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You don't have to be biased to understand that Left vs Right are code for Economic Individualism vs. Economic Collectivism is a feverish Randian framing only believed by people who wear fucking bowties
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How much does the decorative mumbo-jumbo matter, though? (And actually even mainstream fascist / socialist realist aesthetics are broadly similar, though the Nazis -- in particular -- are especially good at it.)
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And it’s reductionist to call that decorative. The “decorations” were a key part of the platform. It’s like calling the Catholic mass “decorative”. Their whole shtick (rightly or wrongly) was that it wasn’t just an economic / social welfare platform
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