I don't think it makes sense to call something "fascist" unless it incorporates the central tenant of Fascism, the Total State, and I think we can agree that whatever the Confederacy was, it was not totalitarian. Maybe for the slaves it was. I'd have to think/learn more about that.
I think it is valid to consider Nazim to be a variant of Fascism that added a virulent racist component to the ideology. I don't see how the Confederacy could be so considered, unless one is employeeing some kind of circular "virulent racism = fascism" argument, which would have the counterintuitive result that the Mussolini was not a fascist.
--- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
> > ^^^^
> CB: KKK predates the Italian Fascists and the
> German Nazis.
> Confederacy did too.
>
> The term "fascist" is conventionally applied to the
> Nazis as well as
> the Italian Fascisti.
>
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