Fascism is capitalism in decay. As with anticommunism in general, the ruling class has oversimplified this phenomenon to the point of absurdity and teaches but a small fraction of its history. This is the spot for getting a serious understanding of it (from a more proletarian perspective) and collecting the facts that contemporary anticommunists are unlikely to discuss.
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For our purposes, we consider early Shōwa Japan to be capitalism in decay.
I am old and have several degrees, a couple of them tangentially relevant to the topic, but never heard of Gládio until listening to Chapo in the past few years. Makes me wonder what other gaping holes there are in my US liberal arts education.
if you haven't already, I would recommend reading Blum's "Killing Hope"
Lately NATO has downplayed the terror and violence and their involvement in Operation Gladio, and all the CIA and reich-wing neoliberal bootlickers are spewing the same nonsense "we needed a stay behind army to prevent those dirty Russians from liberating- I mean, destroying our freedom!"