Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thomas Eddlem
“There’s a fake quote that has been making the rounds for years that Mussolini (or, alternatively, his house philosopher Giovanni Gentile) said that ‘fascism may be defined as the union of corporate and government power.’ Yes, it’s a fake quote, and neither ever said or wrote the phrase. That doesn’t change the fact that fascism is and has been since the beginning, economically speaking, the union of corporate and government power, along with the union of other powers with the state. Mussolini’s style of facism (and his was the original fascism) was technically ‘syndicalism.’ Syndicalism brings in all the essential elements of society into the national government: elected officials, the permanent executive branch bureaucracy, corporations, civil society and labor unions. Stop me if any of this sounds familiar.” (03/19/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/youve-been-living-under-fascism-for-decades