<P> Although fascism is primarily a political ideology that stresses the importance of cultural and social issues over economics, fascism is generally supportive of a broadly capitalistic mixed economy . Fascism supports a state interventionism into markets and private enterprise, alongside a corporatist framework referred to as the "third position" that ostensibly aims to be a middle - ground between socialism and capitalism by mediating labour and business disputes to promote national unity . 20th century fascist regimes in Italy and Germany adopted large public works programs to stimulate their economies, state interventionism in largely private - sector dominated economies to promote re-armament and national interests . Scholars have drawn parallels between the American New Deal and public works programs promoted by fascism, arguing that fascism similarly arose in response to the threat of socialist revolution and similarly aimed to "save capitalism" and private property . </P> <P> "Mixed economies" as a mixture of socially - owned and private enterprise have been predicted and advocated by various socialists as a necessary transitional form between capitalism and socialism . Additionally, a number of proposals for socialist systems call for a mixture of different forms of enterprise ownership including a role for private enterprise . For example, Alexander Nove's conception of "feasible socialism" outlines an economic system based on a combination of state - enterprises for large industries, worker and consumer cooperatives, private enterprises for small - scale operations and individually owned enterprises . </P> <P> The social democratic theorist Eduard Bernstein advocated a form of mixed economy, believing that a mixed system of public, cooperative and private enterprise would be necessary for a long period of time before capitalism would evolve of its own accord into socialism . </P> <P> The People's Republic of China adopted a socialist market economy, which represents an early stage of socialist development according to the Communist Party of China . The Communist Party takes the Marxist position that an economic system containing diverse forms of ownership--but with the public sector playing a decisive role--is a necessary characteristic of an economy in the preliminary stage of developing socialism . </P>

Which of the following is an example of a mixed economy