Re: Fascism=corporatism -Mussolini

Fort Worth TX

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Fascism, by the way, is not the same as Nazism. Hitler very rarely used the term fascist. Read Mein Kampf. You will hardly find that term ever used. Mussolini, who was the prototypical fascist, never called himself a “National Socialist.” So, fascism and National Socialism are somewhat different. They’re related. Essentially the main difference is that National Socialism was, at its core, racist. National Socialism was anti-Semitic. National Socialism drew a racial line that fascism never drew. For example, the Italian fascists were a lot less racist than, for example, the American Democratic Party. Much less. I don’t deny, Mussolini did become anti-Semitic towards the end. But, it was mainly because he felt he had to maintain the alliance with Hitler. There was no inherent Antisemitism in fascism. In fact, a number of the early fascists were Jews. When you look at the origin of fascism — a subject that is now shrouded in mist — you come to a remarkable finding. That is that all — ALL — the founders of original fascism were leftists. All of then were either Marxists, or socialists, or radicals associated in Britain with the Labour Party, in France with the Socialist Party, in Germany and Italy with either the Marxists or the Communists.