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4. I've always believed that Fascism is a political system not an economic one.

Fascism is rule by the "in-group" who are then allowed to subjugate the "out-group" into forced labor. See the slave economy of the U.S. south prior to 1865. Or Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Or Apartheid South Africa.

Some of these states were capitalist, but you can even have Fascist Communist countries like North Korea. China is a Fascist, Authoritarian, mixed communist/capitalist state.

The Republican party in the U.S. is rapidly becoming Fascist if they're not already there. The party's popularity is largely built on a mythical past where White, Christian, males reaped all of the benefits and subjugated women and non-Whites into serving them.