Fascism; what is it? National socialism; corporate/ state merger; radical leftists.
Mussolini has been credited for coining the term fascism, when in fact it was an Italian socialist philosopher (1875- 1944) named, Giovanni Gentile that, came up with term fascism.
Giovanni Gentile, said: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
I'm glad you covered this topic. This term gets haphazardly thrown around a lot these days, mostly by marxoids. Fascism was a movement to recreate the Roman empire, and it's specific to the time period of European colonialization of Africa. An autocratic imperialist state was fundamental to fascism. Any movement that has that aim could be considered neo-fascist.