[Olog-hai]

It’s the rhetoric that makes communists and fascists no different from each other in reality.

“God does not exist. Religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.” — Mussolini, 1924

“Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nation… the object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people… What does ‘social justice’ mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes; it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline… As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labor.” — Mussolini, 1935

“When the war is over, in the world’s social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth’s riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances. ” — Mussolini, 1941

To put it clearly, we have an economic program. Point number thirteen in that program demands the nationalization of all public companies—in other words, socialization, or what is known here as socialism. […] [T]he good of the community takes priority over that of the individual. But the State should retain control. Every owner should feel himself to be an agent of the State. It is his duty not to misuse his possessions to the detriment of the State or the interests of his fellow countrymen. That is the overriding point.

— Adolf Alois Hitler, 1931

Funny enough, Adolf’s rhetoric echoes that of someone in the USA from much earlier:

[I]t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.

— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”, 1887

Both Wilson and Adolf were inspired by Bismarckian “state socialism” to boot.

[Texas Eagle]

God does not exist. Religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.” — Mussolini, 1924

Just one question, Benedetto, if God does not exist, where does the concept of morality come from?

Oh. Wait. He burnin' in Hell. He can't answer. But, I bet he believes in God, now.

[rlmorel]

"...It is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals... — Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”, 1887

Woodrow Wilson is right if he means pure democracy, which is simply a tyranny of its own in which 50.1% of the people who can agree on anything may lord over the other 49.9%.

But Woodrow Wilson is entirely underrated as leftist tyrant by our own history in this country. He was reprehensible.