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It is something I have touched upon in other threads, but I think it deserves a proper discussion in its own right. On key economic issues to do with ownership of the economy and the role of trade unions, 'far right' regimes such as Peronist Argentina, Falangist Spain and Portugal and Fascist Italy were actually significantly to the Left of today's UK Labour Party and US Democrats. This isn't an endorsement of those regimes; rather, it is an indictment on the modern centre Left in the West, especially the Anglosphere. Let's look:
(1) Ownership of the economy
While of course the aforementioned regimes didn't support command economies in the Soviet/Maoist/Cuban sense, nevertheless they wholly or predominantly nationalised key services and industries like railways, buses, airlines and airports, utilities, oil, health, education etc.
(2) The role of trade unions
While it is true the aforementioned regimes usually banned independent trade unions, all the same there were some State-controlled unions which, within their limited competencies, were actually quite powerful, as they could regularly engage in collective bargaining and wage-setting.
N.B. I shan't bother discussing Hitler and the Nazis in this debate, as they are utterly beyond the realms of any kind of respectability or sanity.
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