In the past, I’ve tended to emphasize the distinction between falangism and fascism as totalitarian tendencies; fascism, more common in highly centralized polities like Europe and NE Asia, is centralizing and arrives gradually, whereas falangism is decentralizing and arrives abruptly. Both are violent, reactionary, and totalitarian, but they espouse countradictory economic agenda (how different they are in fact, is another matter).

Fascists tend to believe, like the majoirty of ideologues, that they are reverting to a more natural state of things; they typically believe that the masses everywhere long for fascism, and fascism is thwarted only through the offices of a repellent minority. It follows that fascists are pretty unrestrained about borrowing from each other, mimicking each other, or even affecting a global zeitgeist of “world fascism.” I understand this is ironic.