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Maduro is a dictator without question, but you can't really call him a fascist.
I don't know what more you want from a paranoid totalitarian antidemocratic government telling easily disproven lies in an effort to enforce their view of reality over the population, rousing a cult of personality, pursuing revanchist claims, and in general embracing palingenetic ultranationalism.
What is Maduro missing? That the elites backing him are government oligarchs instead of market oligarchs? That he's painted red?
Fascism involves tolerating and cooperating closely with private industry as a defining trait. I thought Venezuela was all state owned but I could be wrong
Umberto Eco's 14 points marks no such point as essential to fascism, nor does Roger Griffin. Fascist economic attitudes are... complex and inconsistent. All that can be said reliably is that they are neither interested in free enterprise (preferring a managerial class utterly subordinate to the state) or in any actual form of socialism (neutering trade unions and ensuring that democratic workplaces do not come about)
Maybe something like a hybrid (totalitarian/constitutional dictatorship) developing petrostate dictatorship?
Isn't fascism very loosely defined? Is it because Maduro seized power but doesn't have other characteristics of fascism? Just curious it's a newer situation and I'm fussy about the details.