zaangalewa
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... Conservatives are a form of Mussolini fascists. ...
And why exactly do you call me "a form of Mussolini fascist"?
Mussolini, the person that coined the term 'Fascist', created Fascism based on anti-liberalism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism. He used Nationalism to get patriotic Italian veterans to support his cause, and to act as a bunch of thugs to violently suppress his political opposition. Trump's incitement and the Jan. 6 insurrection were typical of Mussolini fascist tactics.
Mussolini was not anti-Semitic, nor racist.
Mussolini wanted a strict class society - everyone's 'place' in life would be determined at birth. The wealthy should be wealthy just for being wealthy, the educated middle class, skilled labor, unskilled labor, and uneducated peasants should remain so. Mussolini's philosophy conflicts with 'The American Dream' - and with individual freedom for any but the wealthiest.
Unfortunately, people associate the term 'Fascist' with the Nazis. Nazis were far beyond 'Fascism' in the original sense of the word.
Not quite.
Mussolini wanted to follow the model of ancient Rome, with was very strict class society as you said, but Mussolini did not start out wealthy, and instead believed that by using force, it was justified in taking wealth from others for yourself and others who supported you.
The Romans had nothing against stealing wealth and enslaving others.
And Mussolini originally had a Jewish mistress, so that is why he originally was fairly quiet about being anti Jew.
{... In 1934, Benito Mussolini famously declared that “there has never been antisemitism in Italy.” A mere four years later, after abandoning his Jewish mistress of 27 years, he passed his infamous racial laws. ...}
While only 17,000 Jews were killed in Italy, actually that is about the same % of Jews killed in Germany as well. That is because most of the Jews killed were from Poland, Russia, and other Slavic countries Hitler did not like, and it was that which compounded their fate.
In Germany lived about 500,000 Jews (0.5% of all Germans). 165,000 of the Germans, who were Jews, were murdered from the Nazis. Many were able to flee - specially also because of the help from many people of the USA. I have the feeling only some hundred Jews and descendants of Jews - as I am one on my own - survived within Germany.
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