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People assume that Mussolini must have been a Hitler-tier shitlord because he was allied with Hitler. But in fact, his ideas were not bad, and could have formed the basis for a global movement had they caught on.

The "big idea" of all these fashy ideologies was that people aren't as equal as liberalism likes to think they are. Germany thought nordics were better than others, Mussolini believed in a spiritual aristocracy, Japan believed in Japanese supremacy, etc.

Now the common denominator of all these ideologies--that people are factually unequal--is clearly correct. Some are smarter than others, some are better looking, and so on. It's not that controversial, even leftists will admit it after a few beers.

The problem is that the German version of this "unequal" concept was all based on race. By Nazi race theory, if a German scientist running a laboratory had to choose between a competent Jew and an incompetent German as a partner, he'd have to choose the latter. By Nazi race theory, race is the only criteria for determining the value of a person, any other form of superiority is discounted.

Italian fascism didn't have this problem. It upheld the inequality of people but it defined "superiority" more in spiritual terms than biological ones. Following fascist standards, the German laboratory leader is free to choose the competent Jew over the incompetent German, because any form of superiority is relevant in the fascist worldview. Therefore, this worldview is more consistent with reality than the Nazi one, and is "not that bad" overall. There isn't anything wrong with thinking some people are better than others: with respect to certain things, some ARE better than others

>>20176727
Fascism isn't racist, Musso himself acknowledged the concept of race but saw it as a social construct that wasn't ideologically relevant. The antisemitism of later Fascism was only done to appease Hitler.

>>12666959
Fascism isn't obsessed with race. Ethnos is a biological reality, fascism is a model of government.

>>10310241
>your race is your essence
how fucking shallow can you get?
also,
>all jews are marxists
yeah, all those jewish bankers totally want to abolish capitalism