> Going from socialism to fascism never was a long walk.
Ideologically, it's a pretty giant gulf. Mechanically, there are some socialist models that are similar (corporatism is the key similarity there, though not all socialist models embrace corporatism in practice, and fewer do by name.)
OTOH, fascism isn't a long mechanical walk from lots of modern government forms.
And yet, both Hitler and Stalin easily steered their parties from socialism to natialism in the same exact time period. As far as ideology goes, both ideas embrase the core Rousseau's tenant of submission to "General Will" and complete, totalitarian primacy of state over a person.
Of course, all government should always be suspect of overstepping it's boundaries, but I still think that countries with common law don't fall into centralized tyranny as easily.
Ideologically, it's a pretty giant gulf. Mechanically, there are some socialist models that are similar (corporatism is the key similarity there, though not all socialist models embrace corporatism in practice, and fewer do by name.)
OTOH, fascism isn't a long mechanical walk from lots of modern government forms.