Comments by "Historia, Magistra Vitae" (@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.) on "VICE News" channel.

@pqunit "hyper militarized, zero democracy, " Correct. These are the staple of every totalitarian regime, mainly collectivist and socia list.
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Hedonist Heathen : Wrong. None of those things have anything to do with right wing nor left wing for that matter. They have no political alignment by default and can be used by either right or left.
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@Faustian Imperium: Monarchy is far left, since it's centralized power. Far right wants power to be decentralized. Far right would be libertarianism.
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@hmq9052 : It is true actually. Bo th na zi's and fa scis ts oppo sed libe ral cap itali sm, but also int ern atio nal so cia lis m, hence the con cept of a “th ird wa y,” their ce ntrali zed eco nomic policies ob eye d coll ecti vist and so cial ist prin cip les, ope nly oppo sing ca pit alis m and the fre e ma rket, fav oring nat iona lism and aut ar chy.
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@hmq9052 : Na zis were national so ci alis ts, fa scis ts were fa scis ts. They were 2 diff erent ideo log ies while both being br anch es of so ciali sm.
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@Marie B : Th ere is no such thi ng and Tru mp is at t h e opp osite si de wh en it com es to the poli tical spect rum.
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Well ain't that an ironic title coming from Vice.
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@jordrider1917 : Muss olini never denounced so cia lis m though. After he was kicked out of the Italian PSI, which was a ma rxi st party, he denounced ma rxis m. Even according to Muss olini himself, he would always remain a so cia list. Mus soli ni also didn't come up with the fa sci st ideology... that was a so ci ali st philosopher Giov anni Gen tile. "You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a so ci ali st. You hate me because you still love me.“ — Ben ito Muss olini, Denis Mack Smith, Muss olini: A Biography (1983) p. 8. As quoted by Mus solini after he was expelled from the Italian So ci ali st Party in 1914. 1910s "Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my So ci ali st beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of So ci ali sm and of the R evolu tion.“ — Be nito Muss olini, Speech at the Italian So ci al ist Party’s meeting in Milan at the People’s Theatre on Nov. 25, 1914.
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Except Mussolini was a f ar-le ft, so cia list leader
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@jaykillxreaperofdeath6967 : Mu ssol ini didn't cr ea te fas cis m, a ma rx ist soc ia list phi losop her Gi ova nni Gen tile did. Mu ssol ini wa s a f ar le ft so cial ist.
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@Andrew-ob5ij : You ju st have no cl ue wha t yo u are talk ing abo ut. How abo ut you go re ad so me his tory.
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@Andrew-ob5ij : Nope. Yo u ha ve no cl ue wh at you are tal ki ng abo ut.
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@American Authoritarianism Rising : Fas c is m is not back and if it were, it would come from the f ar-le ft like last time. Go read history.
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@R_C_Davies: She would need to be a s o ci alis t first.
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@niccolomadeo6691 : He certainly was, by his own adm ission no less. Sho uld read so me hist ory.
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@Andrew-ob5ij : Wrong. Mu sso lini didn't cr ush un ions, he na tion aliz ed them and tr ade un ioni sm (sy ndic ali sm) was e ssen tial part of how fa scis m w orked. Fas cist s were (st ate) soci alis ts. Read so me hist ory.
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@Andrew-ob5ij : They pr ivati zed nothing. They nationalized almost everything like the na zis did. Mus soli ni didn't want people co mpeting against the in terest of his fa sci st sta te. Private se ctor was not a thing. Priv ate prop erty was not a thi ng, unl ess you did exa ctly what the sta te told you to do with "your property". I hig hly sugg est you go and read "the doctrine of fa scis m" or at the very le ast, their m anif esto.
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@Andrew-ob5ij : Hit ler and Mu ssoli ni were simply imitating Le nin, who had earlier closed down all independent labor associations, factory committees and worker cooperatives, banned strikes, walkouts, and lockouts. Although Hit ler and Mu ssoli ni followed Len in’s nati onalizi ng craze, their treatment of wor kers did not mimic their Ru ssi an counterparts.
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@pqunit "When the right seeks to limit people's personal freedom, spend more on the police and the military, expand government beurocracy etc - that's not shrinking the government. " It indeed is not shrinking the government, however what you think is right doesn't seem to be right at all.
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