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throwaway-11-1 4 days ago

are you saying IBM was FORCED to help the reich? like c'mon, what did Mussolini say about Corporatism again?

exasperaited 4 days ago | parent [-]

OK... drum roll please!

I suppose you mean this famous quote:

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"

I have news: this is bullshit.

This quote is literally falsely attributed to Mussolini. There is no evidence whatsoever that he said it. It's also somewhat at odds with things he did say (though most of that was pseudointellectual gibberish) and the way he ruled.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Benito_Mussolini

It's simply wrong. It is one of the great falsely-attributed quotations that will not die.

https://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/02/07/fake-quote-...

It's central to the 21st century misunderstanding of Fascism and it is the convenient misattribution that will not die. (Also what I was referring to up thread)

And what "corporatism" means, in a Fascist context, is not what western readers think it might mean. It is a term talking about collective organisation, not capitalism.

It's part of why the word "fascist" is so completely blunted to the point of uselessness in US debate.