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[–]Captzapheart 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

My grandfather was a prominate European fascist and served with Mussolini... He left our family broke and hungry, I know first hand that's where this delusion lead.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So you're saying socialism doesn't work? Yeah no kidding. Here's where Mussolini came from: http://www.la-articles.org.uk/fascism.htm

[–]Captzapheart 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting, this is the story I'm familiar with https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/13/benito-mussolini-recruited-mi5-italy If you are saying extreme left or extreme right are problematic then we are in agreement.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So MI5 paid an agent to help keep Italy from quitting the war? What's that supposed to mean? Mussolini's fascism grew directly out of socialism. And the problem with different kinds of socialism is that they can't all be correct. They have vicious infighting about who's the One True Socialism. Why do you think Germany and the USSR had such a vicious war? International socialism vs. national socialism. They couldn't both be right!

[–]Captzapheart 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Grew out of socialism warped into some thing weird....something hateful if history is to be believed. You could be right about competing forms of socialism but the facts surgests that fascism abandons the search for solutions and only seeks to fix blame is its main failing. eventually you run out of villains, it would seem.