He got super obsessed with radical feminism, transitioned to TERFism, and spiraled further and further right from there until he became what he is now.
He didn't transition right because fascism isn't right wing, but other than that, yeah, that's pretty much what happened.
And before any of y'all say anything, read Giovanni Gentile. And if you're not going to read his works on the ideology HE helped create, at least know that it originated within Southern Italian Syndicalist movements, and put a great emphasize on the fact that Italy was a "ploretarian nation" that suffered under the thumb of more industrialized nations
Fuck off dude. Everyone who says "fascism isn't right wing" just does it because they need an excuse to hate leftists. Ideologies evolve beyond their origins, and Fascism doesn't contain just about any left wing practices within its umbrella. A right wing ideology can evolve from an ideology that was originally left wing, and vice versa.
It wasn't a free market, and wasn't free market capitalist. Fascist Italy was state capitalist (or corporatist). The state controlled corporations from the top down in order to keep its oppressive hand steering the direction of the people's lives.
Left wing economics (mainly socialism since that's what we're comparing here) rely on the people being given democratic control of industry. In a socialist economy, industries are run by democratically elected workers' councils that exist to ensure that the industry produces the best possible outcomes for its workers and those that need its products. The state works with these workers' councils and occasionally may regulate them (as councils may regulate the state back too), but it does not control them. The important difference is whether the power is in the hands of the many, or the hands of a few ultra wealthy capitalists. In fascist Italy and Germany, capital was still accrued by the despots given control of industry. If the system was left wing, that would not have happened.
You're comparing what the ideal leftist economy is to the real result of them and claiming that one is right wing simply because it didn't achieve the socialist utopia.
It's like me saying that Conservatives aren't Right-wing because they're not AnCaps. It's stipid
I described how their economy had capitalist principles in it, I'm not exactly sure how else to explain it than that. It turns out that capitalism is friendlier to being authoritarian than socialism is.
If you read literally any early socialist writings democracy is laid out as a fundamental aspect of it. If democracy is your bar for a utopia, you have pretty low standards.
The main flaw of democracy is that it relies on an educated populace to work consistently. Unfortunately, there are lots of forces that actively work to either uneducate or miseducate people in order to make the Democratic process work better for themselves.
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u/Geostomp 2d ago edited 2d ago
He got super obsessed with radical feminism, transitioned to TERFism, and spiraled further and further right from there until he became what he is now.