Comments by "Historia, Magistra Vitae" (@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.) on "" video.

Neo-Liberalism is more or less the polar opposite of Fascism. It was socialism infused with statism and nationalism, which enabled Fascism and Fascists in general. Again, go and do your homework before making such videos.
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Minimmalmythicist "Also, I would argue that fascist parties have varied on economics, they certainly aren´t socialist in any shape or form, " Wrong. They had a very specific socialist economic model known as Corporatism ("corporativismo" in Italian), which was one of the cornerstone principles in Mussolini's fascism, and had to do with the way society and the economy would be organized, with state power at the head of a system of syndicates ("corporazione") representing each major industry. Mussolini's corporatist view stressed total state power over businesses as much as over individuals, via these governing industry bodies controlled by the Fascist party, in which businesses retained the responsibilities of property, but few if any of the freedoms.
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Minimmalmythicist "they are opposed to the idea of workplace democracy," Wrong. They didn't actually. Corporatism was a system where sectors of the economy were divided into syndicates (which were nationalized Unions that then elected their own members into government as well as democratically run their workspaces. Each profession and field had their own Syndicate, which in turn, operated symbiotically with its composed members), whose activities and interactions were managed and coordinated by the government. The idea was to let the state control and direct the economy from the top-down without itself owning the means of production.
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Minimmalmythicist "the Nazis actually privatised a few companies after they got power, " Wrong. They didn't. Privatization was never a thing in Nazi Germany. On the contrary, they nationalized most if not all of the German industry and later reorganized all industries into corporations run by members of the Nazi Party. They had no Fascism either. National Socialism and Fascism were two fundamentally different ideologies.
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Minimmalmythicist " Mussolini privatised quite a lot of state companies too." Wrong. He didn't. The only privatization the Fascist Italy saw was before Mussolini's actual dictatorship, during the early 1920s when Alberto de' Stefani was handling the economy. After 1925 he was fired and Mussolini ushered in his one-party dictatorship. Throughout the whole 1930s, both Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany had the largest government owned public sectors in whole Europe, losing only to Stalin's USSR.
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"The truth is only the far-left/communism can combat fascism." No, just no. Fascism itself was a Far-Left ideology and literally a rival socialist ideology to Communism. As created by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, Fascism came from the 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. Only by eliminating socialism in general, we can combat and win Fascism.
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Minimmalmythicist "Fascism wasn´t centrally planned as such, " Wrong. It was, via Corporatism. The idea was that society would be consolidated (i.e., incorporated) into syndicates (in the Italian context, fascio/fasci) which would be regulated by and serve as organs for the state, or "embody" the state (corpus = body). The purpose was the centralization and synchronization of society under the state, as an end unto itself. To quote Mussolini's infamous aphorism: "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
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Minimmalmythicist " most private businesses in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were in private hands, indeed" Wrong. Most businesses and the industry in general was nationalized and was under the control of the State.
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No, and that is not how Fascism even works.
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"On the one hand you have the comic-book Fascists who like Seig Heiling and bullying Muslim women in the street." These people are on the Far-Left actually, and they would also be National Socialists, not Fascists.
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Minimmalmythicist "and fascism was not thought to be a left wing ideology in the 1920s and 30s," Wrong. It most certainly was. It was a competing ideology to Communism just like Trotskyism was to Bolshevism. It was clear to everyone in the world during that time period, that Fascism was socialist ideology where the emphasis was on national identity instead of the Marxist "class struggle".
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Minimmalmythicist " indeed the fascists allied themselves with the conservative and reactionary parties, never the left." On the contrary, Fascism was a revolutionary and anti-conservative ideology at the time. They most certainly didn't want to preserve the status quo nor were they in favor of Monarchy.
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Minimmalmythicist "We´ll take the two regimes that are undisputedly fascist, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, " Nazi Germany never had Fascism. They had National Socialism. Fascism was strictly a radical and revolutionary Italian ideology.
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Minimmalmythicist "The Spanish falangists, also fought on Franco´s side in the civil war and not on the left´s." All of them were on the on Left, just not was far to the Left as Marxism was. Also there was no Fascism in Spain. Franco's reformed Falangism was yet another different 3rd position ideology.
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Minimmalmythicist "Indeed, Ernst Rohm might have had a sincere belief in more egalitarianism but he was swiftly purged by Hitler. " He was purged because he threatened the German army leaders and Hitler complied with their request to eliminate him, in order to gain the army leader's support in return.
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Minimmalmythicist "Fascism is also certainly not left wing in any other way, " Wrong. Fascism was a totalitarian far-left, socialist 3rd position 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 was an outgrowth of Sorellian Syndicalism, which itself was an outgrowth from Marxist socialism. The idea was that society would be consolidated (i.e., incorporated) into syndicates (in the Italian context, fascio/fasci) which would be regulated by and serve as organs for the state, or "embody" the state (corpus = body). The purpose was the centralization and synchronization of society under the state, as an end unto itself. To quote Mussolini's infamous aphorism: "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." As created by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, Fascism 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. It cared about unity in a strong central government with society being brought together by syndicalist organizations obedient to the State.
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Minimmalmythicist "it´s an uber-traditionalist ideology, " It was traditional in the sense, that they wanted to mimic and bring back the Roman Empire, but that's about it.
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Minimmalmythicist "Fascism also to my knowledge never called for a stateless society," Nobody has claimed that they did.
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Minimmalmythicist "It´s a collectivist right wing ideology for sure," Wrong. It's a collectivist Left wing ideology. There is no collectivism on the Right side of the spectrum, since the Right advocates for individualism.
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Minimmalmythicist "The whole reason why Paul Von Hindburg appointed Hitler was because a) he was much closer to his reactionary ideology b) he wanted to crush the communists at all costs." Wrong. Paul Von Hindburg never wanted to appoint Hitler in the first place. Hitler refused to join his coalition government unless he was appointed Chancellor. Hindenburg opposed this demand.
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Minimmalmythicist "People at the time didn´t consider it to be a left wing ideology" Wrong. They did. National Socialism wasn't perceived to be as radical as Marxism was.
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Minimmalmythicist "Indeed, both the Nazis and the Italian fascists initially privatised quite a few state companies." Wrong. They did not such thing. Privatization was never a thing in Nazi Germany. On the contrary, they nationalized most if not all of the German industry and later reorganized all industries into corporations run by members of the Nazi Party. They had no Fascism either. National Socialism and Fascism were two fundamentally different ideologies. The only privatization the Fascist Italy saw was before Mussolini's actual dictatorship, during the early 1920s when Alberto de' Stefani was handling the economy. After 1925 he was fired and Mussolini ushered in his one-party dictatorship. Throughout the whole 1930s, both Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany had the largest government owned public sectors in whole Europe, losing only to Stalin's USSR.
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