by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
From a wonky economic perspective, fascism is a system based on nominal private ownership but de facto government control. For most people, however, I think George Orwell had the best description. Fascism is simply something you don’t like,...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Other than noting that it is a form of collectivism, coercion, and interventionism, I have not paid much attention to fascism. Today, we’ll take a closer look at this statist ideology, and we’ll start with this video from Matt Kibbe. And since I’ll be...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Based on Sunday’s election in Italy, the nation’s next Prime Minister almost certainly will be Giorgia Meloni, which has some worried that Italy is returning to the “far right” fascism of Benito Mussolini. From an economic perspective, though, it would...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 3, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
How should Nazism be classified, particularly when compared to socialism? Are these ideologies at opposite ends of a spectrum, or are they simply different sides of the same collectivist coin? In my humble opinion, both views are correct, which is why I...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
During the Obama years, I frequently criticized the Administration’s bad policy choices. On a wide range of issues. But I also expressed disappointment when President Obama arbitrarily and unilaterally decided to override or overlook laws that were inconvenient to his...
