Comments by "Historia, Magistra Vitae" (@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.) on "Benito Mussolini: The Father Of Fascism | Evolution of Evil | Timeline" video.

@Physeter macrocephalus: Indeed ... also it was the Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile who formulated the fa sci st ideology for Mussolini to use.
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Yup it was a dumb decision to use the AK instead of the MAB 38 but who knows, maybe the production team wasn't able to get a hold of the MAB 38 in time.
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" It is a right wing phenomenon " Wrong. Fascism was a totalitarian far-left, socialist ideology based on National Syndicalism which they adapted from Georges Sorel. It cared about unity in a strong central government with society being brought together by syndicalist organizations obedient to the State. Nothing to do with right wing of any kind whatsoever.
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@Mostly Peaceful Rowan : You are not making any sense.
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@thethirdman225 "Mussolini stopped being a socialist after WWI. " Wrong. He never stopped being a socialist.
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@thethirdman225 "In the end Mussolini banned trade unions while all the time claiming to be a socialist himself." He only made independent, marxist etc. unions illegal (but so did Lenin and Stalin). The whole Fascist infrastructure was based on national trade unionism, better known as National Syndicalism. Also yes, Mussolini and his syndicalists were socialists. Fascism cared about unity in a strong central government with society being brought together by syndicalist organizations obedient to the State.
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@footisman2059 "Mussolini was a corporatist, not a socialist, shut up." Wrong. Mussolini was a national (revolutionary) syndicalist. He was a socialist.
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Mussolini never stopped being a socialist, and he was a marxist before creating his national syndicalist movement.
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@wollymouse_1475 : True. Mussolini was heavily influenced by Sorelianism and by Georges Sorel in general. Both Fascism and Sorelianism were technically branches of what they used to call "Yellow socialism", an alternative to Marxist "Red socialism".
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@Jack Parker : Except Tru mp is not a so cia list.
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@tyrezac600 "What are some instances of Mussolini remaining loyal to the socialist beliefs he previously had before becoming one of the most infamous Far-right leaders in history?" Mussolini had nothing to do with far-right nor right wing of any kind. Every element of Fascist doctrine can be traced to the belief system of revolutionary national syndicalism as that syndicalism emerged from the First World War. Mussolini committed himself to the realization of the original syndicalist and neo-idealist program of Fascism. His original intention was to call his new republic the Italian Socialist Republic—which nonetheless advertised itself as the vehicle of an Italian socialism, a national socialism.
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@LastBref "Fasc ism is right-wing," Wrong. Fasci sm was a tota litarian far-left, socialist ideology based on National Syndi calism which they adapted from Georges Sorel. Nothing to do with right wing.
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@thethirdman225 "He stopped being a socialist when he fell out with the party, as much out of spite as anything else. " Wrong. Again, Mussolini never stopped being a socialist. He did stop being a Marxist.
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@thethirdman225 "Trying to make the case that ‘fascism is really left wing’ (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) is an attempt to rewrite history for political purposes." Wrong. You are historically illiterate if anything. Fascism was a totalitarian far-left, socialist ideology based on National Syndicalism which they adapted from Georges Sorel. It rejected individualism, capitalism, liberalism/democracy, and marxism. The means of production was organized by national worker syndicals (i.e. trade unions), and the guiding philosophy of the state was Actual Idealism. Fascism, as created by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, comes from a belief that the "Stateless and Classless society" Communism calls for after its dictatorship cannot achieve Socialism, and that only the State can properly organize a Socialist Society.
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@tyrezac600 "and anti-socialist and fascist." Mussolini was never anti-socialist.
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@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 "Funny considering he wasnt a socialist at the end lol" Yes he was. Mussolini never stopped being a socialist.
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@tyrezac600 "funny considering some of the victims of his war crimes aside from communists were also socialists." Almost all the victims of the Bolshevik regime were also rival socialists, so your point being?
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@tyrezac600 "The Italian Fascist Party was also a national conservative party aside from being a fascist party." Actually Fascism was anti-conservative movement, and on the contrary, Mussolini accused the Italian Socialist party of being conservative.
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@Russophile30 : Nope. That was a historical fact. Fascism was based on revolutionary syndicalism, derived from Georges Sorel's national syndicalism.
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@litneyloxan : Nope. Fa sc is m has not been a thing since the ww2, hun.
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@MrTaxiRob "Which just goes to show that Nazism wasn't true fascism, because Nazism wasn't socialist." You are not making any sense whatsoever. Nazism was never Fascism. They were two fundamentally different ideologies, but both of them were socialist ideologies.
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@MrTaxiRob "Nazis were about state capitalism" Wrong. There is no such thing. Such a word is an oxymoron. Nazis were about racial socialism.
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@MrTaxiRob "not workers' councils and guilds." Because they weren't marxists nor fascists. They were just racist socialists.
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@jjt1881 "Regarding the socialist component of either fascism or nazism there is basically none to be found." Wrong. Both Fascism and National Socialism were socialist 3rd position movements which opposed Capitalism and Marxism.
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@thethirdman225 "The Fascists were not socialists." Wrong. Fascists were National Syndicalists. They were socialists.
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@MrTaxiRob "and privatization, "_ Wrong. Privatization wasn't a thing in Na zi Germany. On the contrary, they nationalized most if not all the German industry and later reorganized all industries into corporations run by members of the Na zi Party. They called this natio nalization as "Gleichschaltung".
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@MrTaxiRob " It was in the name, but not in the practice." Wrong. It was in the name specifically because they advocated for soci alism on a national level. Na zi Germany had a centrali zed and planned economy similar to the US SR under Stalin. Government controlled the means of production and also decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid.
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@MrTaxiRob : Socialist. Their economy was centralized and planned, similar to the USSR under Stalin. As I said above.
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@Jim ofPalmSprings: Nope. Tru mp is not a so cial ist. Co pe harder.
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@Russophile30 : Yes, and so was Fascism. On the far-left actually.
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"Right extremist" party would advocate for Anarcho-Capitalism. You have no clue what you are talking about.
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@wapple4240 : Wrong. It is a branch of socialism.
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@Russophile30 : There is no Re publican party in my Scand inavian country, hun.
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"based upon the fusion of industry/oligarch with government, " Wrong. There was no such fusion. Government ruled supreme. If anything, it was a fusion between classes since it was based on class collaboration, and unity under the supreme Government.
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@giuliom7428 "Fascism had no ideology... It was a way of being." Wrong. Fascism was a very specific political ideology based on National Syndicalism and Hegelian philosophy.
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@LastBref "They're not sincerely committed to populist or left-wing economics." Wrong. They were, and they specifically developed Corporatism to manage their socialist economy.
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@thethirdman225 "Once he took power, he oppressed them." He oppressed his political enemies i.e. Marxists ... but so did Lenin and Stalin to their socialist rivals.
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