free trade is something of a myth anyway tho isnt it? all the tariffs, the cartels, the subsidies to the favoured ones. the big companies were incredibly powerful in nazi germany and raked the profits in, of course it was war time so global terade was conducted in a rather different way, but it still went on. in 'classic' fascism there would be state control of imports and exports, but that is not an essential as long as the heads of the relevant industries were brought into government - which is what hitler did in his day.
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