>>186793You're right about the NSDAP. With that said, after 1934 the NSDAP would have been considerably more right wing economically than Italy. Mussolini himself was originally a socialist and he even said that he wasn't killing socialists for their economic views, he was killing them for being internationalists.
Corporatism has a lot in common with Syndicalism and Mussolini was heavily influenced by the French Syndicalist Georges Sorel. He made a lot of promises to the workers that he went back on after he came into power. After the monarchy ended up surrendering in 1943 (I believe) the Italian social republic was formed in the north as a puppet state of the 3rd Reich with Mussolini as it's head. He wanted to gain back the support of the workers and (I think) he genuinely felt bad for betraying his proletarian roots. He implemented a process called "socialization" which was meant to give workers more control over industry and he had Bombacci oversee it.
He ended up dying a puppet of Hitler with all of his enemies closing in on him and feeling like he had betrayed his people and accomplished nothing. With Nicola Bombacci (i.e. The Red Pope) hanging by his side.
