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You mean before he was expelled from the Italian Socialist Party in 1914, right?
Ooooo, you think you scored a point! How cute.
They kicked him out over his pro-join-the-war stance. Meaning, he wanted Italy to join the war for Italian reasons and that flew in the face of the International Socialist Revolution that his comrades wanted.
So, ooopsie. He wasn't thrown out because he suddenly renounced their views. Do try and learn, old sod.
A rising star of the Italian Socialist party and a brilliant editor of its newspaper Avanti!, he had been expelled from the party in 1914 because he opposed its policy that Italy should remain neutral in the first world war. Instead, the future Duce believed that Italy must go to war against Austria and Germany which it eventually did in 1915. He insisted that socialists could not wait for history, as Marxist doctrine preached. They must make history, he argued, and such a war would help, not hinder, the revolution.
You don't have the chops to challenge me on anything.
But let's continue with the history lesson, now that your objection has been flicked aside.
In replacing international socialism with a home-country view, a...national socialism if you will, Mussolini set about building his ideal state. To do that he needed
1. Support from the people
2. Support from the industrialist class
3. A common goal to rally them all around
#1 was achieved by inspiring faith in the crowds.
The genius of Mussolini was to create fascism, not just as an armed political movement, but as a religious cult with him as a sacred leader who transformed politics into a daily act of collective faith. This is, of course, what the leaders of the French Revolution did as well.
Hitler would later replicate this model, as the state with him as its head was to replace religion in the eyes of the people. That takes care of #1.
#2 was solved by actually partnering with the industrialists in a corporate-dominated, state directed economy.
#3 was solved by pointing #1 and #2 towards their shared Roman glory and concept of Mare Nostrum - Our Sea - hearkening back to the days of empire.
Bringing us back on topic, arguing that fascism is leftist is like arguing that there are atheist believers in God.
Except that this is where the true drunken reasoning comes in.
You hate the concept of religion, but all human beings need faith in an externally-driven cause or focus. For the religious, that faith is in a figure such as God or Jesus or whatever.
For the likes of you...that faith is driven towards your version of what the world should be like. Not "could be like" but should be like. Why "should" instead of "could"?
Because you have faith you're right and others are wrong.
So yes, homie...you DO have a religion. And the reason why you hate everyone in it is the exact same thing you gleefully point to in religious societies: Fanaticism. You know you're right, those other people are wrong, and worse yet they're keeping you from your goal of The Ideal Society.
And so you hate them, and say things accordingly.
