Fascist state intervention in the private sector served capitalist interests, not state power

Evidence

Th e historian Jon S. Cohen concludes his classic article on the battle of the lira with the following remarks: “When the [Fascist] government became directly involved in the private sector in the 1920s and 1930s, the motivation was to protect and support private interests, not to usurp their control. Th ere was no confl ict of interest between Italian fascism and Italian capitalism” (Cohen 1972, 654). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1713

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the broader pattern in this book: austerity regimes use state power to protect capital, a theme that connects to modern state-capital fusion critiques. — connects to: Fascism completed a three-stage merger of private power with public organization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 973; National Socialism functioned as a non-state ruling directly without legal mediation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1183; State wartime intervention exposed the natural order of capitalism as a political choice — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Nazi rule affirmed capitalism rather than superseding it #corroborates (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 510
• State intervention made capitalist exploitation political and thereby threatened capitalism itself #contradicts (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173
• States sometimes act against direct capitalist class interests #qualifies (0.75)
• State intervention to save capitalism exposed its supposedly natural order as political #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169
• State capitalism substitutes the power motive for the profit motive #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 485
• Ordoliberals traced Nazism to technocratic state management, not capitalism #contradicts (0.75) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 671
• The Fascist corporate state aimed to neutralize class conflict generated by industrialization #expands (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2472
• State-capitalism theory downgrades the economic base in favor of direct political domination #complicates (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 600