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Mussolini and fascism are both left wing

Mussolini was the father of fascism. Lets look at some facts about Mussolini:

Mussolini was an Atheist:
He believed that science had proven there was no god, and that the historical Jesus was ignorant and mad. He considered religion a disease of the psyche, and accused Christianity of promoting resignation and cowardice.


Mussolini was a student of Marx:

He was a member of the Italian Socialist Party and the editor of its newspaper, Avanti! Mussolini was expelled from the party only because of him supporting military intervention into the war (the party wanted neutrality), not because he rejected socialism.


Let's now look at what he accomplished during his reign.

He imposed unionization:

Under this labour policy, Fascist Italy enacted laws to make union membership compulsory for all workers.


Massive amount of government spending on infrastructure, schools, etc.:



Mussolini imposed a large and expansive welfare state:



He made a direct comparison between his government policies, and FDR's government policies:

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!".


Mussolini referred to himself as the "Lenin of Italy":

During the 1919 elections, the Fascists had attempted to court the socialist-left while publicly dubbing himself the “Lenin of Italy”,[13] attempting to “out-socialist the socialists”


He was a collectivist, and hated individualism:



Last but not least, fascist Italy had a very high degree of public ownership of the means of production:

By 1939, Fascist Italy attained the highest rate of state ownership of any economy in the world other than the Soviet Union.

As anyone can see, Mussolini was clearly left wing. Socialism is a spectrum, with dozens of different variations. Lenin had his own version (Leninism), Stalin had his own version (Stalinism), Mao had his own version (Maoism) and Mussolini had his own version, which he named fascism.
 
let them use wiki but if they do they cant pick and choose

The only thing you have to remember is that everyone without exception that pretends fascism is left wing would have been a regular at a Munich beer hall in the 1920s
 
There are oh so many ways to slice that cake. Point being that the simplistic analysis being offered by the OP doesn't address real world implementations.
 
You gotta hand it to the right wing, they don’t give up on this lie no matter how many times they get discredited.

Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
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Sounds like Trump to me.
 
The MAGA 21st century uniquely American fascists are hellbent to shake any public awareness of their being fascists.

They're trying forever to pin that tail on their opponents, ie, the defenders of democracy. This is patently absurd of course and as we know.

Indeed this fascism denial is yet another MAGA never say die campaign, same as MAGAs forever saying the USA is not a democracy, that it is a "representative republic" that has nothing to do with democracy.

This is the preparatory groundwork to Trump & MAGAs easing into power and government authority, or so they want to believe. That is, MAGAs are not fascists and because America doesn't have democracy, America can't lose a democracy it never had when non fascist Trump & MAGA assume their actual dictatorial state power.

So MAGAs are trying to kill two birds against 'em with one stone, fascism and democracy. MAGAs are not fascists and America does not have democracy. So just smile and bend over for MAGA harmless and innocent as MAGAs are eh.
 
My impression is that there are more leftists who become rightists than there are rightists who become leftists. If Jesus has gotten older in heaven, he may be looking back at his younger, social justice self and saying, "Jeez, what was I thinking?"
Jesus has multiple personalities.

Your Jesus is the rightwing, old, white, cranky Jesus who supports the American Armband Right. Your Jesus is your "retribution."

And indeed, when I was in high school I was conservative then several years later a progressive for life. There are many young people who start out as easy and comfy conservatives and who as life goes on become liberal or progressive or socialist and so on.