starman2003 wrote:I dunno. I've seen posters say that Mussolini was too wimpy. A real revolutionary would've gone much farther; like Stalin he should've purged his country of those who weren't really "with it" like monarchists and holy joes..
To be a fascist means that one believe in the outcome of the political processes that took place in Italy in 1922, and the other regimes that copied that system later.
If you only support one of the groups involved in the process (like the futurists, the conservatives, the syndicalists, etcetera) then you are not a fascist, but remains within the box of that particular group.
Fascism as a finished doctrine is the result of negotiations and compromises between those groups. This national-stalinist nostalgia-thing has nothing to do with fascism, it is made by Russian teenage-brats. It is a blind alley.
starman2003 wrote:The raison d'etre of fascism is to strengthen the State vis a vis others. I'm afraid I'm with Figlio on this. It speaks volumes about Italian fascism that Italian soldiers surrendered in droves without a fight.
Off course they did, and it was the right thing to do - Mussolini had betrayed fascism. He imported foreign, German ideas, allied himself with a man that had killed another fascist leader, and planned to kill two more, attacked one himself, he tossed corporatism out of the window, he planned to betray other elements of the fascist alliance - namely the king and the church.
Why fight for a traitor?