21 Feb 2022 3:29 pm
Socialism is cultural also. Largely it promotes an environment of belonging and that everyone is in this together.Polar1ty » 21 Feb 2022, 2:44 pm » wrote: ↑ I have read quite a few accounts from fascists who were disillusioned with "free market theology." Many of them worked in blue collar skilled professions and believed Austrian school/neoclassical economics BS (or the more juvenile Ayn Rand type BS) right before their jobs were shipped overseas.
At the same time, Stalinist economics was unappealing for obvious reasons as nobody wants the government to force them to work in factories or collectives.
So really the economics of fascism (protectionism + industrial socialism mixed in with market economics on a lower level, e.g. local small businesses can compete freely) is about as equally appealing as the cultural side, as much as you hate economics.
It also happens to be very close to the society that Europeans are adapted to. Medieval guilds were very similar to fascist syndicalism