Defanged Fascism?

If you took fascism, did away with the racism, took away the expansionism and wars of agression (still had a heavilly militarized society), and actually had the hybrid system of mostly capitalism and corporatism with some social redistribution, then what would that be called?

Would it still be fascist? Just authoritarian? Crypto-fascist? Fourth Way?

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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

Sounds a bit like Portugal under Salazar - a tightly controlled technocratic economy, but essentially inward looking and not taken seriously as a fellow traveller even by Franco's Spain.

I think the term is a bit of a red herring. Adopted by Mussolini to evoke the Roman heritage, but largely defined by anti-fascists to describe a group of regimes with totalitarian and violent features.

GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M

@SunshineGirl Good point.