[Mind-numbed Robot]

The definition of Fascism I learned was that government and big business worked together to control the country. I now see that that was probably Communist propaganda resulting from this:

Marxists and Fascists were competitors, not opposites.

[DPB101]

Marxists and Fascists were competitors, not opposites.

Exactly. Friendly competitors at times too as they worked together to bring down the Weimer Republic. The German communist publication Rote Fahne published the national socialist writings of Moeller van den Brucke, author of Das dritte Reich, on the same page as an essay by the Bolshevik Karl Radek.

Radek's protege Willi Munzenberg bragged to intimates that communist antifascist movements were a front and the Nazi party was part of the communist party: "Brown on the outside. Red on the inside."

[Eva]

I think that your definition is just about right.My understanding is that fascism develops a quid pro quo relationship with elitist industrialists, to benefit both the state and private industry, the people are the tools with which the state controls the industry.