Fascism has become nothing but a swear word in recent years. It is distinct from National Socialism, despite the disastrous alliance Mussolini had with the German Republic.
Mussolini got his start in political power by leading groups of soldiers as mercenaries in north Italy, fighting banditry and communist insurgents under the pay of merchants.
Until the war Fascists cut taxes, didn't interfere with labor relations or business plans, balanced the budget, implemented free trade, had no anti-Semitic or racial laws and seriously considered going on the gold standard. It arrested relatively few people and killed a tiny fraction of them, mainly people who attempted to assassinate Mussolini.
Even theoretically fascist Syndicalism was not socialism, as conservatives and libertarians often allege, but was what Ludwig von Mises called 'pseudosocialism' and 'worker's capitalism'. Mises acknowledged that the world owed them some thanks for protecting Europe from the Communist revolutionary movements.
While obviously a failed (and rather incoherent) the far more aggressive and statist American and Soviet Victor's history is hardly a reliable guide to the facts of Italian Fascism, and the continued appeal of the movement to many Italians.
Stanley Payne is one of the greatest historians of Spain and fascist movements. Here he talks about fascism and its derivatives.
Recommended are Payne's "A History of Fascism", Paul Gottfried's "Fascism", Robert O. Paxton's "Anatomy of Fascism", and Nicholas Farrell's "Mussolini: A Life".
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