Reply #13: Close but no.

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Fascism was essentially nationalist --- the controlling corporations were essentially national ones, and the goals were towards aggrandization of the nation, albeit one that served only some small group within the nation.

Neoconservatism is corporatism, but is a version of corporatism that allows international corporations a superior degree of governmental influence (control) relative to solely domestic businesses (most of which are small and therefore have little place in neoconservatism) . This is evidenced by the Medicare bill, where by law the American people are put in a disadvantaged position with international drug companies relative to, say, the Canadian people.

Neoconservatism also has a foreign policy that effectively places (neocon perceived) Israeli interests ahead of American ones. Iraq never constituted a threat to the US, but Saddam did reward the families of suicide bombers and may have provided other support for terrorists attacking Israel. The threats that have been made against Syria and Iran are consistent with going after the two other states that are most strongly linked to anti-Israeli terror (and have little or no links to anti-US terror). This is not a nationalist foreign policy.

Neoconservatism is corporatism, but an internationalist version, stripped of any (real) nationalism. Since nationalism was an essential element of fascism, neoconservatism doesn't deserve that label: internationalist corporatism or just corporatism is more fitting.