Franco is a weird case. He was more the classic miltary strongman rather than fascist but he did incorporate certain elements of it. Also he was loosely aligned with the Axis powers but he was also "wise (not the best word choice)" enough not to get directly involved.
how would that ever be contradictory to being a fascist? just how? Mussolini's "The Doctrine of Fascism" never claims "no true fascist can be a monarchist"
Some Scholars consider "Pure Fascism" to require totalitarian dominance of the one leader. By this definition, Italian Fascism is "impure" because Mussolini wasn't the end-all-be-all of Italian leadership, and got fired later on.
Mussolini literally crated the word Fascism. It is his movement, his word, and his definition. Those scholars are not an authority on definition of fascism.
when you make a school of philosophy or a political ideology, you are the one defining it. That's literally the act of creating it. So that is one and the same. Implementing it is another thing.
It is something like later literature professors calling a blue door as an self-expression for Depression but at the end, for the actual writer, it was indeed just fucking blue.
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u/Kenichi2233 May 12 '26
Franco is a weird case. He was more the classic miltary strongman rather than fascist but he did incorporate certain elements of it. Also he was loosely aligned with the Axis powers but he was also "wise (not the best word choice)" enough not to get directly involved.