โIn general, one should be wary of any idealistic treatment of fascism and laissez faire. It has become commonplace among liberal and neoliberal critics of fascism to present it as an economic system in which the state assumes large scale control over the market, and hence a form of socialism. Equally, many contemporary admirers of Mussolini or Hitler hailed the corporatist organization as a superior solution to the social problem. This, they avowed, attests to fascism having superseded both capitalism and socialism. Both detractors and adherents conveniently registered the deviance from the doctrines of classical economy and refrained from putting the question historically and concretely, namely on whose side and for whose benefit did the fascists intervene in the economy?โฆ[R]egarded historically, the market was intervened in from the right [by fascists], to boost the socioeconomic and political interests of capitalism.โ
-Ishay Landa
