2aguy
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I know exactly what a fascist is, dude. Fascism is a leftwing menace that evolved from the Milan Marxists in the person of Mussolini.
Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With the outbreak of World War I a number of socialist parties initially supported the war when it began in August 1914.[36] Once the war began, Austrian, British, French, German, and Russian socialists followed the rising nationalist current by supporting their country's intervention in the war.[37] The outbreak of the war had resulted in a surge of Italian nationalism and the war was supported by a variety of political factions. One of the most prominent and popular Italian nationalist supporters of the war was Gabriele d'Annunzio who promoted Italian irredentism and helped sway the Italian public to support intervention in the war.[38] The Italian Liberal Party under the leadership of Paolo Boselli promoted intervention in the war on the side of the Allies and utilized theSocietà Dante Alighieri to promote Italian nationalism.[39][40] Italian socialists were divided on whether to support the war or oppose it.[41] Prior to Mussolini taking a position on the war, a number of revolutionary syndicalists had announced their support of intervention, including Alceste De Ambris, Filippo Corridoni, and Angelo Oliviero Olivetti.[42] The Italian Socialist Party decided to oppose the war after anti-militarist protestors had been killed, resulting in a general strike called Red Week.[43]
Mussolini initially held official support for the party's decision and, in an August 1914 article, Mussolini wrote "Down with the War. We remain neutral."[44] He saw the war as an opportunity, both for his own ambitions as well as those of socialists and Italians.[44] He was influenced by anti-Austrian Italian nationalist sentiments, believing that the war offered Italians in Austria-Hungary the chance to liberate themselves from rule of the Habsburgs.[44] He eventually decided to declare support for the war by appealing to the need for socialists to overthrow the Hohenzollern and Habsburg monarchies in Germany and Austria-Hungary who he claimed had consistently repressed socialism.[44] He further justified his position by denouncing the Central Powers for being reactionary powers; for pursuing imperialist designs against Belgium and Serbia as well as historically against Denmark, France, and against Italians, since hundreds of thousands of Italians were under Habsburg rule.[42]He claimed that the fall of Hohenzollern and Habsburg monarchies and the repression of "reactionary" Turkey would create conditions beneficial for the working class.[42] While he was supportive of the Entente powers, Mussolini responded to the conservative nature of Tsarist Russia by claiming that the mobilization required for the war would undermine Russia's reactionary authoritarianism and the war would bring Russia to social revolution.[42] He claimed that for Italy the war would complete the process of Risorgimento by uniting the Italians in Austria-Hungary into Italy and by allowing the common people of Italy to be participating members of the Italian nation in what would be Italy's first national war.[42] Thus he claimed that the vast social changes that the war could offer meant that it should be supported as a revolutionary war.[42]
As Mussolini's support for the intervention solidified, he came into conflict with socialists who opposed the war. He attacked the opponents of the war and claimed that those proletarians who supported pacifism were out of step with the proletarians who had joined the rising interventionist vanguard that was preparing Italy for a revolutionary war.[45] He began to criticize the Italian Socialist Party and socialism itself for having failed to recognize the national problems that had led to the outbreak of the war.[45] He was expelled from the party due to his support of intervention.
Hitler too was a socialist and nationalist and modeled his Nazi party on Italian fascism, meaning that the Nazis too were leftwing socialists.
The only significant difference between a fascist and leftwing socialists of old was the issue of nationalism. The Democratic Party today has moved ever furhter leftward and they espouse an Identity Politics that is grounded in a racist view of people, only in this case they are anti-White instead of pro-white.
Further, todays liberals further mimic fascism in their intolerance for dissent or any opposition, their abuse of the democratic system to support authoritarian leaders who rule by decree like Obama, place Nature above the interests of mankind and generally consider humanity a blight upon the planet, and also promote abortion for the 'unfit' minorities.
Makes you wonder....which came first, the nazi party platform.....or the democrat party platform in 2016.............since they are one and the same.......
