Would you consider Spain to be fascist under Franco?

This has been discussed several times quite recently - I would search 'Franco'. Or at least it seems recent to me.

Saves us all repeating the same old contra-arguments

Fascism, unlike its arch enemy communism that has/had a large corpus of theoretical underpinning, is/was not a very well defined ideology. It is rather a set of loosely related concepts centered around certain ideas of struggle, power, leadership, etc. As such it allowed for more national variance. Heck, it did not even go by that name everywhere (cf. "national socialism").

samof94 said:

Franco was clearly helped by fascists and was nominally pro Axis in WWII but many would consider his reign to not be fascist as he personally identified more with restoring the Bourbon monarchy and strengthening the Catholic Church. How would you identify it??? Of course, the regime was more fascist before the late 1950’s than it was after.

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Franco tucked the boxes for Fachism
1. Cult of personality
2.dictaitorship
3. Kills or incarcerates his enemy
4. No freedom of the press
5. Sent the "Legion Azul" to fight the Soviet Union consisting of approximately 3k men roughly equivalent to brigade .
Yes Franco is a Fascist but he was smart enough to withdraw the Legion Azul by early 1944 and negotiate with President Eisenhower to get a lot of money for hosting a US Airbase when Portugal was already a NATO member.
Leftyhunter