Dope1: 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.

You mean before he was expelled from the Italian Socialist Party in 1914, right?

Well, thank you for the Drunk History lesson but there is nothing liberal about fascism. Fundamentally, fascism is anti-Left.

Bringing us back on topic, arguing that fascism is leftist is like arguing that there are atheist believers in God.

Perhaps you noticed that both Hitler and Mussolini relied on anti-leftist militias, the Brownshirts and Blackshirts, to fight "pinkos" in the streets or attack union or labor party meetings. Gee, and I thought the left favored unions.

Fascists also fused nationalism with the concept of a "single true race," with the goal of purging the nation of Jews, Roma and other "undesirables."

Huh, that's not lefty thinking, either.

At the same time, fascists wanted to violently strike at pluralism, gay rights and women's rights -- all ideas that animate the modern left.

But then I guess people like Farrell can empty out or dumb down the definition of fascism until anything you dislike fits the bill, but don't expect to get agreement from actual historians.