Early Fascism was much more vocally Anti-capitalist compared to Fascism once it consolidated power. People like Edmondo Rossoni represented a far more economically radical wing of Fascism that was much more hostile towards the financial elite. Some Fascists, like Mosley, even criticized capitalists they deemed parasitic and idle. Were these Fascists outliers? Were there more Fascists who were critical of idle capitalists, as in landlords and such?Also by the end of his life Mussolini seemed to have spun a narrative that Fascisms capitulation to the conservative elites was a compromise he wasn't happy with, and that it was not representative of true Fascism. How truthful do you think this is?
>>18548786Mussolini abandoned a lot of the national syndicalist and leftist roots of fascism in order to appeal to right wing voters and elites, but they were still influential in some ways. Mussolini's corporatist system threw a lot more bones towards the national syndicalist-wing of Rossoni (though corporatism failed to properly represent workers) than Hitler did toward the 3rd positionist socialists in his party. Not that Hitler liked capitalism, but he was a lot more accommodating of the dirigisme promoted by the DNVP and Germany's nationalist right than the populist corporatist guild-socialism of the Strassers. Germany's working class, small farmers, and small businesses were crushed by autarky and the pandering to state-aligned cartels. Italian fascism in many ways was more revolutionary domestic wise despite the over the top racialism and genocidal visions of Nazism.Mussolini's post-1943 proposals were largely a propagandistic sham because he knew the war was lost by then and the RSI was a Nazi puppet state. Bombacci was basically a useful idiot.
>>18548800>Mussolini's corporatist system threw a lot more bones towards the national syndicalist-wing of RossoniSuch as?>though corporatism failed to properly represent workers) Was this by design or was it simply an unfortunate outcome due to complications and compromise?
>>18548803The corporatist system was intended to be a proper adaptation of the class-collaborationist national syndicalist ideology (pioneered by Sorel and Maurras) where employees and employers would work together. There were also massive employee benefits akin to Keynesian welfare states. Hitler on the other hand dabbled with corporatist elements (Volksgmeineschaft was intended to abolish social differences between classes, German Labour Front) but never to the same extent, the political roots of his ideology were more based on right-wing populists like Karl Lueger and Schonerer as well as revolutionary conservatives like Spengle and Bruck. In contrast Oswald Mosley's (who like Mussolini had leftist roots) nationalist syndicalism was a bizarre proposal to combine democracy with fascism corporatism.I think the Italian corporatist system failed due to a combination of both. Mussolini's middle class and wealthy supporters may have affected the way he saw workers.
>>18548786The essential difference is not capitalism and socialism. But traditionalism and all ideologies that defend the interests of the third estate, that is, practically all ideologies that are now dominant: liberalism, neoconservatism, Marxism, libertarianism and others. Fascism simply does not know its own way; it admires aristocratic aesthetics, but at the same time completely manipulates the lowest instincts of the masses.
>>18548829>Fascism simply does not know its own way; it admires aristocratic aesthetics, but at the same time completely manipulates the lowest instincts of the masses.Fascism hold a cooperative mass mobilized state as the highest model. It recognizes that the nation, that is ethnic group of shared culture/race/language are eternal while various political systems and nation-states come and go. Its rooted in socialism and recognizing a lot of the same problems the socialist point out, they diverge simply on how best to resolve these problems. The main one being class conflict and while communist support class warfare, Fascist support class collaboration. >>18548786Fascism supports capitalism (private ownership of the means of production) up until a certain point. It places heavy guidlines and restrictions in an effort to prevent rampant capitalism from hurting the state and leaves room for seizing industries and nationalizing them if it determines that would be better for the state. The issue with this model is that any communist will look at it and cry capitalism, but any capitalist will look at it and cry communism. The reality is the Capitalism, Communism, and Fascism are simply three distinct ideologies.
All fascism is doomed to degenerate to bourgeo-fascism, the most rotten form of power of bourgeoisie over the proletariat.
