>>2312
> There's nothing remotely socialist about "National Socialism."Except the name, of course.
Also, fun fact: Mussolini was a leader of the Italian Socialist Party. Many of his ideas of fascism were supposed to be a left-wing counter to reformist positions of the socialist party and the Second International.
The funny thing is that fascism was originally supposed to be a proletarian revolution focalized on state power, however, unlike Lenin, Mussolini couldn't get much political support from traditional prole sectors and so resorted to the petty bourgeois middle class.
Still, it is curious. Fascism could well have been italian Marxism-Leninism, if the circumstances had allowed for it. Which actually, when you think about it, gives some ground to the assertion that Marxism-Leninism was russian Fascism, but that's the irony of it all, isn't it?