Fascism embodied corporatism, in which political representation was based on trade and industry rather than on geography. In this, fascism revealed i… - Sheldon Richman

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Fascism embodied corporatism, in which political representation was based on trade and industry rather than on geography. In this, fascism revealed its roots in syndicalism, a form of socialism originating on the left.

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About Sheldon Richman

Sheldon L. Richman is the former editor of The Freeman, the one-tine monthly magazine of the Foundation for Economic Education. He is a contributor to the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics and the author of Coming to Palestine, America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited, and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other (forthcoming), among other books. He keeps the blogs Free Association and The Logical Atheist.

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The fascist leaders’ antagonism to communism has been misinterpreted as an affinity for capitalism. In fact, fascists’ anticommunism was motivated by a belief that in the collectivist milieu of early-twentieth-century Europe, communism was its closest rival for people’s allegiance. As with communism, under fascism, every citizen was regarded as an employee and tenant of the totalitarian, party-dominated state.

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