Economy

Role of productivism was derived from Henri de Saint Simon whose ideas inspired creation of utopian socialism and influenced other ideologies.

Productivism criticized internationalist and Marxist socialism advocating instead to represent type of nationalist productivist socialism.

Fascism is distinguished by absence of coherent economic ideology and lack of serious economic thinking Feldman and Mason argue.

Fascism held that bourgeois–proletarian conflict existed primarily in international conflict between proletarian nations and bourgeois nations.

This would be done through state's mediating relations between classes.

Economic self-sufficiency known as autarky was major goal of most fascist governments.

Fascism had complex relationship with capitalism both supporting and opposing different aspects at different times and in different countries.

Fascists sometimes regarded their movement as type of nationalist socialism to highlight commitment to nationalism.

Italy's policy of autarky failed to achieve effective economic autonomy

Political historian Martin Blinkhorn estimated Italy's scope of state intervention and ownership greatly surpassed that in Nazi Germany giving Italy a public sector second only to that of Stalin's Russia

While Hitler's regime only nationalized 500 companies in key industries by the early 1940s Mussolini declared in 1934 three-fourths of Italian economy industrial and agricultural is in the hands of the state

Fascist Italy created the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction a giant state-owned firm and holding company that provided state funding to failing private enterprises

During the Great Depression Mussolini promoted active state intervention in the economy

The IRI reported in early 1934 that they held assets of 485 percent of the share capital of Italy

Gyula Gömbös created an eight-hour work day and a forty-eight-hour work week in industry sought to entrench a corporatist economy and pursued irredentist claims on Hungary's neighbors

Fascist regime created corporatist economic system in 1925 with Palazzo Vidoni Pact in which Confindustria and fascist trade unions agreed to recognize each other as sole representatives of Italy's employers and employees excluding non-fascist trade unions.

In practice sectoral corporations exercised little independence were largely controlled by regime employee organizations were rarely led by employees but by appointed Fascist party members.

In 1920 militant strike activity by industrial workers reached peak in Italy 1919 and 1920 were known as "Red Year"

Corradini's views were part of wider perceptions within Italian Nationalist Association claiming Italy's economic backwardness was caused by corruption liberalism and socialism

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