AHC: National Syndicalism a prominent ideology

What would need to occur for national syndicalism to become as widespread an ideology as, say, communism was, and distinct enough to not be considered a subset of fascism? Where are the most likely places for a national syndicalist regime to take power and when?
 
Read Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling. Because the protagonist doesn't die in the Great War the short term anarcho-syndicalist experiment in futurism survives, butterflying away Hitler and Mussolini and creating a world where the vanguard in anticolonialism and anticommunism is a totalitarian synicalist ideology that never becomes infected with reactionary politics as fascism did in OTL.
 
Read Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling. Because the protagonist doesn't die in the Great War the short term anarcho-syndicalist experiment in futurism survives, butterflying away Hitler and Mussolini and creating a world where the vanguard in anticolonialism and anticommunism is a totalitarian synicalist ideology that never becomes infected with reactionary politics as fascism did in OTL.

A totalitarianism without the reaction is like weed without the smell. It's unnatural.

How does that even work?
 

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What would need to occur for national syndicalism to become as widespread an ideology as, say, communism was, and distinct enough to not be considered a subset of fascism?
The obvious way to achieve this is to simply have National Syndicalism replace fascism. A more radical Mussolini could have decided to implement National Syndicalist policies instead of the OTL corporatist policies he implemented - he did take a more radical approach in the Italian Social Republic, but that was obviously too little, too late. The Spanish Falangists also supported National Syndicalism, but never really committed to it once in power. If Jose Primo de Rivera led Spain instead of Franco it's possible that they might have made a genuine attempt to implement National Syndicalism. The problem though, is whether these ultra-nationalists would make a genuine attempt to implement National Syndicalism instead of paying lip service to it, and if they did try whether or not they would succeed.
 
A totalitarianism without the reaction is like weed without the smell. It's unnatural.

How does that even work?
The clique that manages the regime controls the actual executive functions because, of the 10 syndicates that make up the government of Carnaro both in the book and in OTL, one was literally reserved for Nietzschean overmen, giving them outsized real power to match their propaganda efforts. They attack and harass bourgeois elements with impunity and brutally repress communists (how can a movement from the last century represent the future?) but women have the vote and equal civil rights, black musicians are treated as honored political refugees, and sex and drugs are essentially unregulated (except for cocaine, which is the province for the Minister of Vengeance Weapons).

They still have a hard-on for battle cries and mass rallies but Futurism was always more concerned with ushering in a glorious future through rapid violent action rather than appeals to a mythologized past. The main character starts to see the writing on the wall when Carnaro becomes an official Regency (with a Duke and all), but by that point elements within the US are very keen on importing Futurism and adapting it to a much greater American scale, complete with well funded weapons programs and propaganda efforts.
 
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