Fascist and democratic austerity both suppressed dissent in matching patterns

Evidence

Th e two forms of austerity, Fascist and democratic, aligned in their success at thwarting dissent. Th is can be seen in the similar riseandfall patterns of worker strikes and the riseandfall patterns of compensation and wage share. Th e data presented in this chapter illustrate how the repressive drive of austere Italian Fascism behaved much the same as austerity in the British parliamentary democracy, both aft er World War I and today. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1475

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the book’s central parallelism to strike suppression data across both settings. — connects to: Austerity unified Fascism’s laissez-faire and corporatist economic periods. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1045; Liberal austerity and fascist repression converged in a shared coercive project — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1070; Democratic and Fascist austerity achieved the same compliance through different coercive means — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1474 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Fascist austerity dismantled postwar gains and re-separated economics from politics #corroborates (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 193
• Austere economies structurally disempower those who would protest austerity #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1541
• Expert austerity framing blocked post-war moves toward economic democracy #corroborates (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 161