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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
I don't think it's remotely plausible to envisage the rise of Fascism in a defeated Britain - Britain simply has a too strongly entrenched parliamentary culture, which could have weathered the storm of defeat - which, in any case, would not have been a punitive peace like that leveled on Germany historically.
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At this stage a lot of people didn't really conceive of fascism as diametrically opposed to democracy though. It really depends on how the economic structure of the world would have changed during the 20s and 30s. A thousand year parliamentary culture is all well and good but i think you're underestimating how quickly individuals alter their outlook inside a generation. Also by not a punitive peace do you mean germany wouldn't have demanded reparations?
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France is even less likely to go Fascist than Britain in any such eventuality. You do realise how petty, unsuccessful and disparate French Fascism between the wars was, don't you? I conceed that The Third Republic is unlikely to weather the storm of defeat, but the most likely outcome of that, based on how well the two politically extremes did historically betwen the wars, would be a radical Socialist or Communist government, not a Fascist one - perhaps an authoritarian right-wing government, a la Vichy, if we're lucky. But Fascism? Pretty inconcievable.
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To be honest dude I'm not too sure how fantastic a bastion of marxism in western europe would have been either.