Fascism comes from the Latin word “fasces” which was the bundles of rods wrapped around an axe carried around by the state escorts of Roman dictators (and other magistrates of sufficient authority). Yet despite this symbol of extreme executive Authority nobody calls the Roman Republic and the dictators or magistrates that served it fascism. Because fascism is much more than authoritarian dictatorship.
Bonito Mussolini viewed fascism as the merging of state and corporate power. That his version of state capitalism was the way to ‘save’ capitalism. Denying capitalism’s place on the evolution and perpetuating of fascism is simply ludicrous. Fascism is the end result of capitalism. Its where it inevitably ends. They cannot exist without each other.
Your definition, in direct contradiction to the founder of fascism, is so absurdly broad so as to be pointless. Again authoritarianism is not the same as fascism. Nor is monarchy. You’ve painted such an incredibly vague picture here that you would have to define 98% of human government in all of history as fascist. Which is absurd.
Fascism comes from the Latin word “fasces” which was the bundles of rods wrapped around an axe carried around by the state escorts of Roman dictators (and other magistrates of sufficient authority). Yet despite this symbol of extreme executive Authority nobody calls the Roman Republic and the dictators or magistrates that served it fascism. Because fascism is much more than authoritarian dictatorship.
Bonito Mussolini viewed fascism as the merging of state and corporate power. That his version of state capitalism was the way to ‘save’ capitalism. Denying capitalism’s place on the evolution and perpetuating of fascism is simply ludicrous. Fascism is the end result of capitalism. Its where it inevitably ends. They cannot exist without each other.
Your definition, in direct contradiction to the founder of fascism, is so absurdly broad so as to be pointless. Again authoritarianism is not the same as fascism. Nor is monarchy. You’ve painted such an incredibly vague picture here that you would have to define 98% of human government in all of history as fascist. Which is absurd.