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To: koan who wrote (47869)	7/7/2013 1:01:47 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 85487

From that same article "Fascism supports what is sometimes called a Third Position between capitalism and Marxist socialism. " en.wikipedia.org "Fascism promotes such economics as a " third position" alternative to capitalism and Marxism, as fascism declares both as being obsolete. [174] Such an economic system, is variously termed by fascists as "national corporatism", "national socialism" or "national syndicalism". [23] Benito Mussolini spoke of this as a "Third Alternative" in 1940 upon Italy's entry into World War II, saying: This conflict must not be allowed to cancel out all our achievements of the past eighteen years, nor, more importantly, extinguish the hope of a Third Alternative held out by Fascism to mankind fettered between the pillar of capitalist slavery and the post of Marxist chaos. —Benito Mussolini, 1940. [174] While fascism accepts the importance of material wealth and power, it condemns materialism that it identifies as being present in both communism and capitalism, and criticizes their materialist basis for lacking acknowledgement of the role of the spirit. [175] In particular, fascism denounces capitalism not because of its competitive nature nor its support of private property that fascism supports; but due to its materialism, individualism, alleged bourgeois decadence, and alleged indifference to the nation. [176] Fascism denounces Marxism for its advocacy of materialist internationalist class identity that fascism regards as an attack upon the emotional and spiritual bonds of nationality and thwarting the achievement of genuine national solidarity. [177]" en.wikipedia.org "However fascism's corporatism was a top-down model of state control over the economy" en.wikipedia.org Fascism opposed to free market capitalism, just as its opposed to Marxism. The free market isn't fascist, or supported by fascists, or something fascists like. They want the various "corporate" groups (which in this usage does not mean corporations, although they may be one such group), to support the government. Its extreme nationalism, with the focus of that nationalism being the government. The government (often the "supreme leader" of one form or another), above all.