The Difference Between Classical And Friendly Fascism

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Fascism is a Big Business-Big Government partnership that relies on propaganda to control its citizens. In the book titled Friendly Fascism, Bertram Gross argues that the United States and other capitalist countries practice a new form of fascism. Classical fascism can be defined as a government partnership with business that advances the political ideology of a nation. This political ideology advances with the help of big business and can be delivered through violence. Classical fascist states include Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Konoye’s Japan. Neo-fascism or friendly fascism is similar to classic fascism in that Big Government and Big Business create a partnership. The difference between classic and friendly fascism is that …show more content…

Classical fascism used business as a tool to advance a political ideology. In contrast, friendly fascism uses the government to advance an economic ideology. Gross states, “A major difference is that under friendly fascism Big Government would do less pillaging of, and more pillaging for Big Business” (Gross 169). Friendly fascism promotes stagflation and is pro recession. Gross called it the tradeoff policy, to fight inflation they must have slow growth. When inflation occurs, cuts are needed. Typically, the cuts would come from cutting government spending on education, health, police protection, fire protection, and public service. However, the deepest cuts come from the lower income where there is the least resistance. In addition, another important key to classical fascism is the need for shortages and scarcity. Big business cannot let the public know that there is a virtually unlimited abundance of a product or resource. It is important that business can control the appearance of shortages, droughts, and limited products. Gross states:
The new technologies that make abundance possible have the potentiality of abolishing scarcity, from the viewpoint of many large corporations this has always been a great disadvantage: it can create a shortage of shortages. It is only logical, therefore, that corporate executives do everything possible to get into situations in which shortages are available. (Gross

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