Fascism is famously hard to define, but I would say that at its core it is a way capitalism responds to certain kinds of crises (arising from contradictions in liberal democracy), that is, by altering the state to more directly repress the people. The crisis is required because fascism is a worse shell for capital than liberal democracy. Through times when the crises are less dire, it is carried and developed by the middle class, which is always in crisis under capitalism. The other aspects of fascism are a means to do this (like racism), or historical (like nordic syncretism). National socialism is a specific form of fascism that has historical roots in Nazi Germany.
Neoliberalism is just an ideology that favors deregulation, privatization and austerity. Of course, it also has some attributes of fascism, but I think the difference in these attributes is the transformation of quantity into quality.
Fascism is famously hard to define, but I would say that at its core it is a way capitalism responds to certain kinds of crises (arising from contradictions in liberal democracy), that is, by altering the state to more directly repress the people. The crisis is required because fascism is a worse shell for capital than liberal democracy. Through times when the crises are less dire, it is carried and developed by the middle class, which is always in crisis under capitalism. The other aspects of fascism are a means to do this (like racism), or historical (like nordic syncretism). National socialism is a specific form of fascism that has historical roots in Nazi Germany.
Neoliberalism is just an ideology that favors deregulation, privatization and austerity. Of course, it also has some attributes of fascism, but I think the difference in these attributes is the transformation of quantity into quality.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you. Do you have an easy reading source that looks deeper into this?
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