italian fascism was not right wing.
I hate this thread. Everyone is engaging in ridiculous oversimplification in order to promote their own political agenda.
The reality of fascism was more complex.
For instance:
Italian Fascists in 1920
In 1920, militant strike activity by industrial workers reached its peak in Italy and 1919 and 1920 were known as the
"Red Years".
[134] Mussolini and the Fascists took advantage of the situation by allying with industrial businesses and attacking workers and peasants in the name of preserving order and internal peace in Italy.
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Fascists identified their primary opponents as the majority of socialists on the left who had opposed intervention in World War I.
[133] The Fascists and the Italian political right held common ground: both held Marxism in contempt, discounted class consciousness and believed in the rule of elites.
[136] The Fascists assisted the anti-socialist campaign by allying with the other parties and the conservative right in a mutual effort to destroy the Italian Socialist Party and labour organizations committed to class identity above national identity.
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Fascism sought to accommodate Italian conservatives by making major alterations to its political agenda—abandoning its previous populism,
republicanism and
anticlericalism, adopting policies in support of
free enterprise and accepting the
Catholic Church and the monarchy as institutions in Italy.
[137] To appeal to Italian conservatives, Fascism adopted policies such as promoting family values, including policies designed to reduce the number of women in the workforce—limiting the woman's role to that of a mother. The fascists banned literature on birth control and increased penalties for abortion in 1926, declaring both crimes against the state.
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Though Fascism adopted a number of anti-modern positions designed to appeal to people upset with the new trends in sexuality and women's rights—especially those with a
reactionary point of view—the Fascists sought to maintain Fascism's revolutionary character, with Angelo Oliviero Olivetti saying: "Fascism would like to be conservative, but it will [be] by being revolutionary".
[139] The Fascists supported revolutionary action and committed to secure law and order to appeal to both conservatives and syndicalists.
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Prior to Fascism's accommodations to the political right, Fascism was a small, urban, northern Italian movement that had about a thousand members.
[141] After Fascism's accommodation of the political right, the Fascist movement's membership soared to approximately 250,000 by 1921.
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