Subject: Re: How Do We Resist The Corrupted....
Fascism actually has its origins on the far-left.

Before inventing it, Benito Mussolini was in fact'

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'one of Italy's leading socialists.

A rising star of the Italian Socialist party and a brilliant editor of its newspaper Avanti!, he had been expelled from the party in 1914 because he opposed its policy that Italy should remain neutral in the first world war. Instead, the future Duce believed that Italy must go to war against Austria and Germany which it eventually did in 1915. He insisted that socialists could not wait for history, as Marxist doctrine preached. They must make history, he argued, and such a war would help, not hinder, the revolution. As it did, in Italy, as elsewhere. The French and German socialist parties agreed with Mussolini and decided to fight for their respective countries against each other. This caused the collapse of the Second Socialist International and thus of international socialism.

Most people don't understand socialism. Marx and Engels believed in an international revolution of the proletariat (Workers of the world, unite!) whereupon the masses would revolt, seize the means of production and declare a new international socialist order. But'


The first world war had exposed a fatal weakness at the heart of international socialism whose mission was supposed to be world revolution and the abolition of the nation-state: people are more loyal to their country than their class. Mussolini made this cardinal rule the key to his version of socialism. It inspired him to replace international socialism with national socialism which he called fascism. Hitler, who would copy much from Mussolini, would call his version of fascism national socialism.

Indeed. Turns out that national identity is a thing. A big thing. So big that you're never going to get your Workers Of the World uniting. All you're ever going to get is Workers of Canada or Workers of Poland uniting. A worldwide socialist revolution was never happening. Communist Russia never really figured this out either.


Fascism began as a left-wing heresy against the Marxist creed and remained so at heart to the bitter end ' regardless of the far-right tag attached to it after 1945 by a left desperate to avoid fascism and communism being treated as two sides of the same coin. In April 1945, when communist partisans shot Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci after their capture at Lake Como, those with him included his old friend Nicola Bombacci, a founder of the Italian communist party and member of the Soviet Comintern, who had been his closest adviser in the last two years of the war. Bombacci's last words before a communist partisan firing squad shot him dead beside the lake were: 'Viva Mussolini! Viva il Socialismo!'