Extraction of materials from abroad is a basis for all colonialisms, not just those engaged in by a government that is fascist.
I would like a demonstration that 1) extraction of materials from abroad was a motivation for fascism (such as, a document from Mussolini or Franco saying so) and 2) that Spanish or Italian or Greek fascism ever engaged in use of slave labor in any amount significant for their economies, or at all.
I think that the motivation for fascism was the reason the fascists stated: the belief that Europe had to be freed from the twin egalitarian, humanist Satans of communism and liberal capitalism.
--- On Sat, 7/18/09, dredmond at efn.org <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
>
> Coerced labor was key to the German war machine after 1941.
> In re Italy:
> ask Ethiopia or Libya about this. Francoist Spain didn't
> have the power to
> engage in colonial adventures, thankfully.
>
> But there's a real sense in which the madness of Fascism
> did have a
> weirdly capitalist logic behind it: smash unions, depress
> real wages, pump
> up the military sector and plunder neighbors for their oil
> (Germany had
> none on its own soil), wheat and labor. Which is also why
> the Axis powers
> were doomed -- no way it could compete against the combined
> resources of
> the UK, US and USSR.
>
> -- DRR
>
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