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Would modern day fascism work?

Also remember is fascism is different to Nazism.
CaptainCanadia · 41-45, M
The relationship between government and business would be very different because within a fascist state, big corporations were subservient to the government. They were still private entities, but the state was supreme. In a sort of modern fascism, the huge internationals are kind of above the government and so who serves who would be... well a different dynamic. It's a good question.
lewiso123 · 26-30, M
@TyphoidJerry: Parts of Nazi Germany like improving infrastructure and focusing on industry and building jobs for the people of the country and being more self sufficient. I haven't read up on much of the Italian fascism.
CaptainCanadia · 41-45, M
I'll level with you and say I'm about as anti-fascist as they come. Read up on Mussolini, Oswald Mosley, Pinochet, and Francisco to learn more. You can come to your own conclusions, but I generally see a force for evil there.
lewiso123 · 26-30, M
I'm not looking at the characters of fascism but more of the benefits it brings. I shall read into those people tho.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
The way things are going in the west, some form of Fascism could actually happen. You mean Italian Fasscism - not German Nazism - and this means rule by a strong nationalist state without necessarily a racial aspect.

It could 'work' in the sense that it could be sustainable. If the state was strong enough and maintained a large minority of committed support then it would hold the balance of power. It could also work economically because globalised international free-trade is not an essential organic human development. The market is constructed by man. Whether people would be as affluent is another question.

It wouldn't 'work' in terms of providing good conditions for their citizens because it doesn't need to be responsive to Democratic will. Also you would have a great lack of democratic freedoms and live in fear of offending the wrong person. It would also be terrible for minorities because basing a state on national identity would inevitable exclude some people, even without it being explicitly racialised.
Kingfish · 31-35, M
Absolutely.
lewiso123 · 26-30, M
Care to explain?

 
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