Fascism fuses private monopoly with state power and requires expansion to hold.

Evidence

The monopoly of labour was thus acquired by the state, while industrial private monopolies were furnished with the powers of the state. `Thus the process of cartelization has reached its logical conclusion in the final merger of private power and public organization.’ However, the interests of the various partners in this compromisethe monopolies, the army, industry and agriculture, as well as the various levels of the party bureaucracycould be reduced to a common denominator only by means of the fascist programme of territorial expansion. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 257

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the fascist state as an extreme absorption of individual into group rights, sanctioned by the state itself.
• XREF: Echoes the Horkheimer-Neumann split over whether the monopoly economy is the cause or the result of the dictatorial state.
• SEED: Angle: ‘the merger of private power and public organization’ as a 1930s phrase that reads as a literal description of modern platform-monopoly states.