• Calfpupa [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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        ‘Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.’ - Benito Mussolini, a founder of fascism.

        Corporations only exist within the capitalist model

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          So Stalin was a corporatist?

          Mussolini was trying to push that particular economic agenda at the time he said that. He is generally credited with being the father of modern fascism, but Mussolini himself waffled between different economic policies as he rose to power and led Italy through WWII.

          You can be a fascist and an oligarch, socialist, communist, capitalist, etc…

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            The soviets did not merge corporate and state power, they abolished the bourgeois state and established a socialist state. The fascist route would have been to support the Provisional Government protecting bourgeois interests.

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            13 hours ago

            I wish liberals would learn that fascism isn’t just a synonym for “thing I don’t like”

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            21 minutes ago

            No, Stalin was a dictator, and authoritarian (like all states are). You’re mixing up facism and authoritarianism maybe?

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      Uhhh, that is some wild oversimplification

      Like, we’re probably sharing the same sentiment all in all, but shut up