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Would you mind checking? In France there were the Terrors and Bonaparte; in England, there was the East India Companies; in the Netherlands, there was the conquest of spice and the Banda Massacre; in Germany and Italy, there were militaristic state unifications; and in Spain, there was the Inquisition and the Carlist Wars.
Are these the instances of 'appreciable form of fascist valence' you mean?
France is one of the epicenters of fascism for sure and France itself is a fascist nation supplying weapons to the world. You ever listen to their national anthem.
England spread its imperialism far and wide and birthed a nation that went on to cause more damage than any nation before it.
The East India Corporation invented corporate lobbying and was instrumental to the rise of corporations.
The Netherland, in particular the Dutch, once held the reserve currency before England took over it and caused massive suffering through the Dutch East India Corporation.
Yes, a lot of these nations laid the ground work for what we would consider modern day fascism and they have fascist tendencies to this day. As I said in the beginning, the entire world became fascist with the US toppling democracies and instituting fascism whenever and wherever it could. Seventy countries that we know about but I can guarantee the US had its hands in many more than this.
If the entire world became fascist, where does a stable, non-imperialist country like Cape Verde or Costa Rica fit into your framework? Are they fascist too, or are there actual non-fascist societies today?