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0 pointsexasperaited3mo ago0 comments

> but fascism is by definition capitalist.

I think it is you who should look up the definition and history of fascism.

Fascism usually exists in a capitalist context — but "by definition"? No.

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Maybe we should take the definition from the mouth of an expert on fascism, Mussolini, "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

exasperaitedOP3mo ago

Maybe you should do some research on that quote.

Because there is literally no evidence he ever said it. It's a widespread but false attribution, as I outlined in another comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239664

This attribution leads to a truly fundamentally broken reduction of what Mussolini actually thought fascism was (though his own definition of it was largely pseudointellectual drivel).

But even then, "corporatism" doesn't mean "capitalism" at all.

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