After the author said some correct things, he had to make the same blunder he criticized others of, calling Japanese and Chinese authoritarian governments Fascists. If we call every non-Communist dictatorship Fascist, then the Egyptian Pharaohs would be Fascists…

When Italian Fascism in 1943 stopped having any Monarchy influence — the King remained in the south with the Allies — it intended to start the Economic Socialization. One of its tenets was that all salaried work would end — every worker should have a part of the company they worked for.

Italy under Fascism was also one of the first Western countries to recognize the USSR and was in the 1930s selling a lot of ships and naval technology to Stalin (including for NKVD).

Bob Sykes: Italian Socialists were not Communists.

Like the r word, to quote Free Northerner:

“Only whites can be racist, because racist is a nominalist, specifically anti-white slur. Calling another race racist would be akin to calling a white a n—-r. It’s silly. The sooner people realize that it means nothing beyond BADWHITE, the sooner it loses its power.”

And in return Bob Whitaker: “To be anything but a ‘racist’ in today’s America is treason against the truth.”

I’m bad, you’re bad, who’s bad!

Some time back I read a novel written in 1944, contemporary to that time, and the few references to European politics reminded me that, at that time, Hitler et al were considered the latest and greatest in domestic policy: a technocratic elite telling the rest of us what to do based on the latest research and advice from merited thinkers.

The new boss is the same as the old boss, but they’ve been able to incorporate the racial aspects not only without any backlash, but with full throated approval and cries for MORE! Who says our rulers don’t learn from history?

Aretae is right that almost all modern governments are fascist to one degree or another.