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Fascism is on the political left. It's just socialism with a nationalist bent. Mussolini, for example, was a life-long socialist and Italy under fascism was a progressive's wet dream.
Mussolini spent big on the public sector:
An expansive welfare state:
Along with state control over most of the economy:
Everything above is indisputably left wing, and anathema to people on the far right, like myself.
Here's your boy on the issue of racism:
On religion:
Fascism, being a branch of socialism, is a collectivist ideology:
While those of us on the right believe in individualism and capitalism.
So let's stop with the myth that fascism is right wing. Fascism is indisputably left wing.
Fascism is on the political left. It's just socialism with a nationalist bent. Mussolini, for example, was a life-long socialist and Italy under fascism was a progressive's wet dream.
Mussolini spent big on the public sector:
A former school teacher, Mussolini’s spending on the public sector, schools and infrastructure was considered extravagant. Mussolini "instituted a programme of public works hitherto unrivaled in modern Europe. Bridges, canals and roads were built, hospitals and schools, railway stations and orphanages; swamps were drained and land reclaimed, forests were planted and universities were endowed".[21] As for the scope and spending on social welfare programs, Italian fascism "compared favorably with the more advanced European nations and in some respect was more progressive".[22] When New York city politician Grover Aloysius Whalen asked Mussolini about the meaning behind Italian fascism in 1939, the reply was: "It is like your New Deal!".[23]
An expansive welfare state:
By 1925, the Fascist government had "embarked upon an elaborate program" that included food supplementary assistance, infant care, maternity assistance, general healthcare, wage supplements, paid vacations, unemployment benefits, illness insurance, occupational disease insurance, general family assistance, public housing and old age and disability insurance.[24] As for public works, the Mussolini's administration "devoted 400 million lire of public monies" for school construction between 1922 and 1942, compared to only 60 million lire between 1862 and 1922.
Along with state control over most of the economy:
By 1939, Fascist Italy attained the highest rate of state ownership of an economy in the world other than the Soviet Union,[42] where the Italian state "controlled over four-fifths of Italy's shipping and shipbuilding, three-quarters of its pig iron production and almost half that of steel".
Everything above is indisputably left wing, and anathema to people on the far right, like myself.
Here's your boy on the issue of racism:
Mussolini said:Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
On religion:
Mussolini said:Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
Fascism, being a branch of socialism, is a collectivist ideology:
Mussolini said:The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
While those of us on the right believe in individualism and capitalism.
So let's stop with the myth that fascism is right wing. Fascism is indisputably left wing.