I think so, but that doesn’t mean that wars can’t be fought. Look at how often other countries like Britain, France, the US, Russia and Israel fought. I can think of several inflection points where fascist powers might have gotten involved during the Cold War if it had survived WW2 as a Viable ideology.hey’d also try to hold on to their colonies, so they’d end up fighting colonial wars like the Portuguese.
Plenty of small states ran or are runnign militarized societies, most notable examples would be North Korea or Israel. And wanting to keep the colonies puts Salazar on the fascism scale at the same level as de Gaulle or Churchill. Such things can't be the metric how to measure it, that just makes us all fascists. Fascism is a style of authoritarian politics, the actual policies can be as varied as day and night.
Turn the clock back to the thirties and many parts of the world needed serious rule or change. The Great Depression was setting in and in 1932, Roosevelt was warned not to run for president unless he was ready to assume a role of dictator. After all, look at Russia, Italy and Germany. FDR enacted one dictatorial edict: he outlawed trade of gold and excessive gold coins (over $100) that were not part of a collection. Then he let up and brought the New Deal.
I think it's not even na equivalent as much as it is just a rebranding. Baathism's founder literally reworded Mussolini's views on vanguardism (being also inspired by Lenin) amongst other things
Promising the conquests isn't necessary. It was crucial for Hitler and his slogans about the Germans deserving to be the masters of Europe, but other european axis powers weren't power-hungry for conquests. Eager, but not obsessed. Fascists believe that the world is morally rotten, that the world falls into degeneracy, and that only the strict control over their nation might prevent it. That's the goal of fascism, and in such sense it could be able to keep its position. In this sense Hitler was a fascist, but he was above all else a national socialist: social benefits for the german master race, but from resources that will be gained from others. Non-nazi fascists preferred to rely on what they already have.
Fascists do promise to take care of the country's issues, including what they believe to be poorly managed foreign policy. The point I was trying to make, is that they could abandon the expansionist aspect for the sake of focusing themselves exclusively on the internal issues. Germany was the only one who wanted to get the empire regardless of the cost. Others did pursue their expansionist ideas, but only after Germany created for them the comfortable environment.
But none have ever done so. None. All came to power and maintained said power by utilizing foreign policy assperations as a major political tenant. Also Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia before Germany did anything on the international stage.
The South American regimes didn't make a habit of invading their neighbours either. (Argentina invading the Falklands being the exception that proves the rule)
By the time Italy invaded Ethiopia, openly revanchist Hitler had already ruled in Germany, and that was enough to convince Mussolini that the west has bigger things to worry about. And Mussolini had been ruling in Italy since 1922, and throughout these 13 years somehow noone overthrew him for the lack of expansion.
Spain wasnt a Fascist country. The Falange were in coalition with the other conservative powers.
That depends on your definition, but they were part of the same historical trend.
Portugal*, Spain*, Austria, the Metaxas regime in Greece...
What I was thinking with the "no WW2" part of this thread was that something happens that removes Hitler from the picture, like say he gets killed by a stray artillery shell in WW1. So even if there is a Nazi party, or some other far-right revanchist movement in Germany, it is likely that they will not be actively pushing to trigger another world war in Europe, maybe a local one with Poland, but not the sort of suicidal madness that Hitler pushed Germany down. As for the Pacific, without the fall of Western Europe, Japan's still going to go after China, but probably doesn't pick a fight with the Europeans or Americans.
