Vichy Army, if the Nazis weren’t fascists, what about Mussolini Italy and Franco Spain? Does a nation-state have to have a syndicalist-type economy to be fascist?
Nazis were National Socialists.
Italian Fascists were fascists; a handful of the Syndicates and Corporatist movements in S. America were fascist.
Does a nation-state have to have a syndicalist-type economy to be fascist?
Yes. Does a nation need to have a free market economy to be libertarian? Yes. This is just entailed if you’re using the term with a historical meaning rather than an a slur.
Fraco got rid of all the syndicalist elements as soon as he took power. He was a traditional military strongman, he wasn’t fascist at all.
I always get so confused when people accuse me of being a “right wing conservative”.
Rothbard once said that a famous limited government, free market journalist had started to be called a “conservative” in the post-Depression era.
The said journalist famously wrote back to the paper that labelled him so:
“If anybody calls me a conservative, I will punch him in the face. I am a radical, I was a radical, and I always will be a radical.”