Do right-wing dictators like Pinochet and Suharto count as "fascist"?

[Tooting Carmen]

I don't think communist states such as the USSR were authoritarian. Authoritarian to the western imperialists maybe, because the USSR had a dictatorship of the proletariat, while western countries have a dictatorship of capital. To those who control the state+have all the money/power and whatnot in the western world it's obvious that they'll refer to the former as "authoritarian" and the latter as "democratic". This is because in the former there's democracy for the workers, while in the latter there's democracy for the rich.

As for how I define fascism though, I of course see it as capitalism in crisis. It's what capitalism resorts to to save itself from communistic uprising.
Fascism is dictatorial, reactionary nationalist, anti-egalitarian, and maintains strict class structure (fascists want class collaboration, not class struggle). You may consider corporatism part of it as well, but to me capitalism and corporatism go hand in hand. That is to say, even though liberals will claim they don't want corporatism, the fact is capitalism inevitably results in corporatism and oligarchy nevertheless.

Only your second paragraph makes sense. Fascism may work with capitalism, but it certainly is far removed from classical liberal economics. As for your first paragraph, as a left-leaning person myself who cringes at the reactionary and often downright bigoted views of lots of people in this forum, what you wrote is utter bollocks.

[Tooting Carmen]

Mainly as CIA agent, more in May.

I'm still interested in your response.

[Tooting Carmen]

Mainly as CIA agent, more in May.

Have you got an answer now?

[Tooting Carmen]

As I just mentioned both OP dictators in a separate thread of mine written in Spanish about the tacit alliance between Castro and Franco, I thought I would revive this thread.

[Tooting Carmen]

Maybe here I asked the wrong question. Perhaps instead I should have asked "were Hitler, Mussolini and Franco right-wing?" (Yes I know they believed in natural inequalities and hierarchies, and their economies weren't 100% nationalised economies in the Soviet-Chinese-Cuban sense. Nevertheless, they still privileged community over the individual, and there were still plenty of state-owned companies and industries, along with various tariffs, subsidies and protections).

[Sebastianus Rex]

Maybe here I asked the wrong question. Perhaps instead I should have asked "were Hitler, Mussolini and Franco right-wing?" (Yes I know they believed in natural inequalities and hierarchies, and their economies weren't 100% nationalised economies in the Soviet-Chinese-Cuban sense. Nevertheless, they still privileged community over the individual, and there were still plenty of state-owned companies and industries, along with various tariffs, subsidies and protections).

Maybe Franco was moderately right wing, the other two, Hitler and Mussolini were socialist asf., therefore they were lefties...as 99% of the tyrants/dictators.

[PaleoEuropean]

Maybe here I asked the wrong question. Perhaps instead I should have asked "were Hitler, Mussolini and Franco right-wing?" (Yes I know they believed in natural inequalities and hierarchies, and their economies weren't 100% nationalised economies in the Soviet-Chinese-Cuban sense. Nevertheless, they still privileged community over the individual, and there were still plenty of state-owned companies and industries, along with various tariffs, subsidies and protections).

Franco was populist and militarist, but also a traditionalist.

[Tooting Carmen]

Maybe Franco was moderately right wing, the other two, Hitler and Mussolini were socialist asf., therefore they were lefties...as 99% of the tyrants/dictators.

Now the part in bold is an exaggeration. I would say that most dictators in SE Asia and Latin America (such as those discussed in the OP), and maybe 40-50% of those in Africa, have been of the Right.

[Zeno]

Maybe Franco was moderately right wing, the other two, Hitler and Mussolini were socialist asf., therefore they were lefties...as 99% of the tyrants/dictators.

Basically this. National Socialism in practice was a mix of pure socialism with some capitalist aspects, which was heavily ethnocentric (for the Germans, hence the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei denomination).

But in many aspects, they were indeed right wing. But their basis on economics was left.

[Parça do Neymar]

Pinochet's market-oriented reforms were Libertarian in principle and largely based on the teachings of the Chicago school of economics. Some faggots like to use a loose definition of Fascism (as a synonym for non-Communist authoritarian regime), but it definitely wasn't Fascism proper.