While communism and socialism are different (though both still are socialist in nature) the terms are often used interchangeably when I refer to "the communist party" I refer to the socialist party of Italy.

Read the Nazi 25 point plan, they nationalized industry. As far as Italy goes, corporatism was the name of the game and corporatism is a form of socialism. Even the most rudimentary research on fascist Italy will show that they not only advocated Marxist economics but practiced them as well. Fascists are syndicalists. Syndicalism is not a right wing or conservative ideology, as it calls for seizing the means of production ane giving it to labor unions. If we want to be perfectly clear, the Nazis were national socialists, the Italians were national syndicalists.

I'll agree that Mussolini used the church and institutions to push for a higher birth rate and brainwashing, but I would be skeptical of calling their education conservative or right wing.

From Wikipedia (a left leaning source btw): The fascists in Italy followed Karl Marx's admonition that a nation required "full maturation of capitalism as the precondition for socialist realization". Under this interpretation, especially as expounded by Sergio Panunzio, a major theoretician of Italian fascism, "[s]yndicalists were productivists, rather than distributionists". Fascist intellectuals were determined to foster economic development to enable a syndicalist economy to "attain its productive maximum", which they identified as crucial to "socialist revolution".

Mussolini said socialism was dead because he knew Italy would never go down the path of textbook socialism, largely because nobody in the socialist party aside from him had the drive or the intellect to make revolution. He said that socialism was dead the SAME YEAR he started up the Fascio. Mussolini agreed with almost everything about socialism, but he knew that a unified national identity (Italy against the world) was the way to go, not an international socialist governmentt divided by class. A rose by any other name is still a rose. Mussolini used socialist economics and socialist government, of course he would call it obsolete because (in his mind) he had made socialism obsolete with fascism.

I did not just mean NATO only, fact is by America defending the free world, smaller countries such as the Nordic countries hailed as socialist, don't need large militaries and can put their funds elsewhere.

While communism and socialism are different (though both still are socialist in nature) the terms are often used interchangeably when I refer to "the communist party" I refer to the socialist party of Italy.

Read the Nazi 25 point plan, they nationalized industry. As far as Italy goes, corporatism was the name of the game and corporatism is a form of socialism. Even the most rudimentary research on fascist Italy will show that they not only advocated Marxist economics but practiced them as well. Fascists are syndicalists. Syndicalism is not a right wing or conservative ideology, as it calls for seizing the means of production ane giving it to labor unions. If we want to be perfectly clear, the Nazis were national socialists, the Italians were national syndicalists.

I'll agree that Mussolini used the church and institutions to push for a higher birth rate and brainwashing, but I would be skeptical of calling their education conservative or right wing.

From Wikipedia (a left leaning source btw): The fascists in Italy followed Karl Marx's admonition that a nation required "full maturation of capitalism as the precondition for socialist realization". Under this interpretation, especially as expounded by Sergio Panunzio, a major theoretician of Italian fascism, "[s]yndicalists were productivists, rather than distributionists". Fascist intellectuals were determined to foster economic development to enable a syndicalist economy to "attain its productive maximum", which they identified as crucial to "socialist revolution".

Mussolini said socialism was dead because he knew Italy would never go down the path of textbook socialism, largely because nobody in the socialist party aside from him had the drive or the intellect to make revolution. He said that socialism was dead the SAME YEAR he started up the Fascio. Mussolini agreed with almost everything about socialism, but he knew that a unified national identity (Italy against the world) was the way to go, not an international socialist governmentt divided by class. A rose by any other name is still a rose. Mussolini used socialist economics and socialist government, of course he would call it obsolete because (in his mind) he had made socialism obsolete.

I did not just mean NATO only, fact is by America defending the free world, smaller countries such as the Nordic countries hailed as socialist, don't need large militaries and can put their funds elsewhere.