Yes, this does meet the test of fascism
Scottish lairds will be ordered to break up their estates into smaller parcels during sales under plans to reverse the country’s heavily concentrated patterns of land ownership.
A land reform bill proposes introducing rules that could force someone selling an estate larger than 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) to divide it into smaller lots, if it is was needed to increase the number of people owning land or living in the area.
The Scottish Land Commission, a government quango, has found that Scotland has Europe’s most concentrated pattern of land ownership, predominantly in the hands of hereditary owners often known as lairds, as well as farmers, heritage bodies, forestry businesses and grouse moor managers.
OK, blah, blah etc. But here:
Properties would be subject to a “transfer test” by a new land and communities commissioner, who would join the Scottish Land Commission but answer directly to ministers in Edinburgh. Ministers would then decide the size of each piece of land.
You’ve just put the sale and purhase of a piece of land right into the middle of electoral politics. The politically connected will find their purcahses sail through, those not so connected will not.
This is fascist economics – not fascism, for it’s sans the spiffy uniforms. But fascist economics. Nominally a private and capitalist economy but wholly controlled by politics.