My reply got deleted even though it had nothing to do with any private PM's. I'll try again. Do you have any links to books or reading material that goes over what socialism, fascism and communism are, who created them, etc ... ? I was able to find
this video after a quick search as I've seen it a while ago and it goes over the basics of fascism, but I'd really like to learn more about the subjects. Oh, please don't link to any Wikipedia pages as they change too often for my liking.
- Nazi-Sozi by Goebbels (considered to be the bible of nazism):
https://www.amazon.es/Nazi-Sozi-Dr-Joseph-Goebbels/dp/1880881071
- The Doctrine of Fascism by Mussolini where he explains how fascism is a sort of "evolution" of socialism that fixes what he believed were socialism's biggest mistakes. The main key differences being classic marxist socialism and fascism are explained here.
- As for socialism and communism you can read Marx.
There's also the fact that they all started their political careers in the socialist party, where Mussolini was expelled since he was considered far too radical for the socialists of the time.
The Doctrine of Fascism is probably the best read since you can see the socialist roots of fascism but also why fascism ended up opposing socialism (or more like it ends up negating some aspects of socialism and changing it for others -> fascism).
The main difference between fascism and socialism is the cultural aspects.
Fascism is against cultural destruction, it uses cultural symbols for control (the swastika, the roman salute, etc) whereas socialism would rather have the entire country change its culture, history and everything other social aspect.
Socialism considers religion to be "the opium of people", thus in communism it is eliminated but in fascism it is used as another tool for control. This is also why fascism seems to be "far right conservative", but it's just an illusion as they are simply appealing to a countries emotions (historical, cultural and other facts) to gain control of people's mind. Remember that Nazism called itself "the Third Reich", despite it being the first and only Nazi regime in Germany, they were using to the historical facts to appeal to people.
Now when it comes to actual government, they are pretty much the same thing:
- Nationalized means of production. There's barely any private property or respect for it.
- Censored and manipulated mass media (propaganda).
- Full control of all economic aspects of the nation.
- Use of violence against political opponents.
- Use of military force and invasions to further spread the ideology.
I could go on and on and on about how they are pretty much two different ways to practice the same theory, but I think you get the point.