Fascism: Left or right?

American Thinker ^ | 11 Jun, 2024 | Jay Davidson

[TBP]

It’s a market economy in name only. In actuality, the government controls it every bit as much as they control it in any other socialist system.

[TBP]

Fascism can work quite well as far as economic development goes.

It can make the trains run on time and come up with a car for everyone.

[TBP]

Exactly. Cloward and Piven merged with the bottom up/top down/inside out strategy. And Duginism.

[TBP]

Franco basically stabbed Hitler in the back.

[yelostar]

I suspect Washington himself would have been insulted by “Apotheosis”.

Agree.

[TBP]

It’s corporate capitalism, as opposed to market capitalism, and corporate capitalism, or corporatism, is just a form of socialism.

[TBP]

The difference is mostly in how they implemented it.

[Olog-hai]

That’s literally true, but nowhere near enough to somehow transform fascism into anything right wing.

One would have to somehow accuse Lenin and Stalin of being “right wing” too in the vein the modern left uses, the former for his “New Economic Policy” and the latter for his “socialism in one country” (this latter being the inspiration for China’s “socialism with Chinese characteristics”; see how both imply the label “national socialism”).

[Paal Gulli]

Left and Right don’t exist. They’re meaningless amorphous terms that all sides used as a cudgel against anybody strikes their fancy.