>>7659191>>7659079You both are making a fatal error, perhaps without realizing it. Fascism (as in Italy) and National Socialism (as in Germany) are not the same thing. People like Umberto Ecco and Stanley Payne (among the closest we have to scholars who specialize in the study of "fascism") have lone recognized that Fascist Italy and NatSoc Germany were far more dissimilar than they were similar.
Umberto Ecco said that Mussolini "had no ideology, just rhetoric". Additionally, Mussolini was removed from power by the Grand Council of Fascism, which dissolved itself soon afterward.
With Fascism, it is very inclusive, even potentially universal. Anyone, irrespective of race or religion or sex, can become a citizen and thus be fully integrated into the Fascist state.
Compare that to National Socialism (also known as Nazism). Not anyone can become a "citizen". It is limited to people of a specific language group, ethnicity and race. The only people who can be a citizen belong to that specific racial grouping. So it is esclusionary.
Mussolini thought that the racist ideology of Richard Darré, Alfred Rosenberg, Joseph Goebbels, et. al. was absolutely stupid pseudoscience. He never bought into National Socialism, even considering it to be contra-Fascism or contra the aims of Fascism (to build up the State, not a race community).
Any NatSoc policies implemented in Italy were done "under the gun" of Germany's superiority.
TL;dr: Fascism and National Socialism are not the same thing and are inherently incompatible.
