Third position: Fascist economic system and Mussolini

 


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Fascism can be considered as a 3rd way in economy. According to fascists, while socialism gave power to only one class, Liberalism was actually only protecting bosses and entrepreneurs, even though it claimed to distribute freedom equally. Fascism accepts economic classes, but is in favor of reconciling them by the state.

The state may not tolerate business conflicts as long as the employer-employee disputes remain entirely private and within a narrow scope, but if these conflicts gain a wide scope regarding the working and productive majority of the nation, as in our time, then individual interests will turn into collective interests. In such a situation, intervention is not only the right but also the duty of the state, which is the guardian of the collective interests.

In addition, Fascism, unlike socialism, does not completely exclude capital and capitalism:

‘…As the worker cannot be sacrificed, so is capital. Capital depends on the savings mentality. No feature can distinguish a leading nation from a backward nation as much as the degree of its capital security.'

In the fascist system, the state directs the private sector, in fact, the state manages the entire economy.

‘There can be no capitalism without workers and no workers without capitalists. In this respect, reconciling these two necessary elements, which are complementary to each other, in the field of production, which means the interest of the nation, and reconciliation and the social case are resolved in this way. Only the state can do this. So, it is necessary to make the state authority, which is the first starting point, strong and dominant. For this reason, the state, which is obliged to protect the national existence, must also be the organizer of general production activities.'

 

Mussolini-Fascism and Fascist State