What about the entire Rome thing?
They covered it: slave economy, crony merchantislism, private armies and sections of the government, a “private and public partnership” and an untouchable ruling class and a master race (roman citizens).
Its not a coincidence that both facsism and City-state sized capitalism were all founded in Italy.
Fascism was literally inspired from Ancient Rome.
And every time you add cream to a carbonara, you can count on people from the country that invented fascism to complain about cultural purity.
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How dare you link spaghetti with fascism?
Have you ever shared a kitchen with an italian?
technically the origins of fascism trace back to the us jim crow laws wasnt it?
Some inspiration, but only incidentally. Fascism was really Italians wanting to be Romans again. This is why most of the key ideas of Fascism were written out in Latin, or used Latin terms.