Are the Global Elite Fascist?

In an email list I follow, the moderator took exception to David Icke’s use of “fascism” in reviewing “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making” by David Rothkopf, in which the global elite are ever so gently outed (link to Icke’s review). My first reply to this was:
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Fascism: Right or [...]