- 06 Jan 2014 00:12
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This is a good question, but I am probably not the best person to answer it. However, my understanding of fascist economic theory is that it contains a few key concepts:
1. Nationalism over Internationalism: The economic prosperity of the nation is paramount, so trade, finance, and other forms of international economic activity must be scrutinized to make sure that it does not harm the national economy, especially the nation's economic ability to make defend itself. An extreme form of economic nationalism would be autarchy. Fascists do not necessarily support autarchy but they can.
2. Respect for Private Property: While fascists do not fetishize private property as much as liberals, they do support private ownership of the means of production because people work hardest and best for something that they own. However, this does not mean that fascists are against state ownership when it comes to utilities or other key industries that are important to national strength. Some left-wing fascists even support some forms of syndicalism and guild socialism where the workers own the means of production and not capitalists or the state.
3. Class Collaboration: Instead of the class warfare of Marxism, fascists support collaboration between the classes. This can take the form of cooperation between businesses and labor unions with the state as a neutral mediator, or it can be a type of corporatism where industrial and professional groups have some representation in the legislature. Again, some left-wing fascists might support something like syndicalism where class in the Marxist sense is eliminated because everybody becomes a worker-owner and there would technically be no exploitation.
As far as the application of fascist economics to a Third World country like Ethiopia, I don't see why this would be a problem. Plenty of countries have used mixed economic strategies to industrialize (assuming that is what you would want to accomplish in Ethiopia). The East Asian nations are good examples of this. While I am not a fascist, I support Third World countries having control over their own economies and escaping the dominance of the neoliberal Washington Consensus.