cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16451158
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2026
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You never connected the concepts. Demanding structural rigor is not a "narrow view". This is the bare minimum required for a coherent framework.
Your examples are historical anecdotes of state violence that completely fail to differentiate fascism from standard capitalism or imperialism operating at the core of a liberal state. Every example you mentioned that is bad about the US can easily be explained without fascism. Flattening these distinct systems into a single category requires ignoring the core arguments of the very thinkers you are citing and renders the term meaningless.
Your interpretation of how corporations connect to fascism completely misunderstands Mussolini’s actual model of corporatism. I have pointed this out three times now, and you have yet to address it.
I have not provided my own definition of fascism because my view isn't the subject of the critique. I am challenging you to account for the internal consistency of yours. Yet another thing I have stated and you continue to fail to grasp.
Reducing a fundamental structural and temporal breakdown of political mechanics to a mere "disagreement over semantics" just confirms that you are unwilling to do the work to map your own thesis.
Your invective responses are just thin veneers for your rhetorical dodging and inability to wrestle with real structural mechanics in actual history.
And we are back to saying fascism doesn't exist because I can't connect the dots in your head. sigh
Edit: Just to be clear Fascism didn't start in Italy.
Fixed that for you.
Fixed that for you.
Corporatism predates Mussolini by almost a hundred years.
The only person who pretends not to connect the dots is you.
What's your point?
Corporatism and fascism both predate fascist WWII Italy. Corporatism, in regards to guilds had come to an end and transitioned to corporations and unions in the early 20th century. Guild socialism had given way to its succesor corporatism. Authoritarians found out that state sanctioned monopolies would work just as well with fascism as it did with democratic socialism.
This was a rejection of both Marxism and Liberalism although fascist leaning countries continue to use these philosophies as a facade for governance as can be seen by the US and Russia. Red Fascism and the creation of the term totalitarianism was a criticism which meaning was quickly lost when it was converted into anti-communist propaganda by other fascist loving nations in their bid to control the world economy.
Which industrialized country helped build up Italian and Nazi fascist empires. It is the same country that was formed purely by the wealthy's business interests, the first truly fascist nation that helped spread fascism around the world. The same nation that walked away after WWI and then helped build the fascist empires of WWII.
Do any post feudal states exist without a fascist valence?