[headsonpikes]

Fascism is simply Socialism in the real world.

Socialism is logos; Fascism is praxis. ;^)

All “Socialism”s turn out to be National Socialisms - as Stalin pointed out, Socialism in One Country is at least practicable, even if still murderous and ultimately self-destructive.

[RobbyS]

Then Bolshevism was fascism. Lenin was nothing if not an opportunist and he taught Mussolini HOW to subvert a government. Hitler picked it up from Mussolini. What all three men shared was a radical hatred for the elements of western civilization, whether medieval or modern. The leitmotif, whether Lenin’s “nation at arms,” dating back to the French Revolution; the faux-Roman imperialism of Mussolini; or the Wagnerian trappings of Hitler-ism were all incidental to their nihilism and the cult of power.