• rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Fascism involves tolerating and cooperating closely with private industry as a defining trait. I thought Venezuela was all state owned but I could be wrong

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      Umberto Eco’s 14 points marks no such point as essential to fascism, nor does Roger Griffin. Fascist economic attitudes are… complex and inconsistent. All that can be said reliably is that they are neither interested in free enterprise (preferring a managerial class utterly subordinate to the state) or in any actual form of socialism (neutering trade unions and ensuring that democratic workplaces do not come about)