The last chapter. Conclusion

So, let's summarize. Fascism originated in Italy in 1919, although some of its signs were already evident during the First World War. From the moment the fascist movement emerged until the end of 1920, entrepreneurs and landowners could not openly oppose the revolutionary movement. Therefore, during this period, fascism did not play a large role in the struggle against the workers and peasants.

The fascists began to gain strength only after the fall of 1920, when the movement to seize factories and plants ended in failure. Thanks to the comprehensive support of the government, military, police, court and, most importantly, large businessmen and landowners, the fascists were able to deploy their terror.

Liberals, delighted with terrorism against workers and peasants, hastened to lead the fascists into big politics. And after that, they transferred the full power completely to Mussolini.

Over the long period of its reign, Italian fascism has gone from a policy of classical liberalism to an open terrorist dictatorship. In the struggle for its existence, this regime did not stop at any "left" rhetoric and at any social slogans. Dr. Goebbels did not have to invent anything new.

Undoubtedly, Italian fascism and corporatism is pure state capitalism. But the state does not mean in the interests of the state or society, but it literally means “with the help of the state apparatus”. The main beneficiary of the fascist regime, of course, were the Italian oligarchs.

And, indeed, as the corporate system was built, it became clear that no revolution in the relationship between labor and capital had taken place and no social justice had come. The fascists did not even think to encroach on private property and other features of the capitalist economy.

And yet the corporate system has brought in something new. The ordinary capitalist state is based on the formal recognition of independent trade unions and the right to strike. The corporate state is based on the violent defeat of independent workers' organizations and a complete ban on strikes. Fascist class solidarity is the absolutization of business interests and the enslavement of workers. Which, in turn, led to degradation, destruction and war.

It is not surprising, because if the state ceases to restrain the appetites of entrepreneurs, then sooner or later the robbery of the population reaches such monstrous proportions that no terror apparatus will be able to cope with public discontent. There will be either an external war or an internal war. Italy received both at once.

Exactly in the footsteps of Mussolini, the German fascists followed. Hitler's national socialism is also fascism. Exactly the same forcible subordination of workers to the interests of business, exactly the same devouring of small business by large and exactly the same dominance of oligarchs in the economy.

Many viewers will compare fascism with what is happening today. But this must be done with great care. Despite the fact that many countries are indeed pursuing repressive policies in the interests of the oligarchs today, they are unlikely to be fascist. Fascism, first of all, is an open and unpunished terror against workers, and then everything else.

In general, all the confusion around fascism is associated with the wrong approach to its study. Rather than keeping track of the funding of fascists before they came to power, rather than looking at who earned the most during fascism and how, most studies of fascism examine its ideology, e.i., they judge fascism on the basis of what the fascists themselves say about themselves. But this is the same as judging the state of affairs in modern Russia from the words of Mr. Kiselev.

The ideology of fascism is a collection of nonsense defended by violence. However, in the depths of this nonsense, like the violence, there is a meaningful system. Behind the backs of these noisy demonstrators of megalomaniacs, brawlers and social demagogues there are very specific people with money who give this money for very specific purposes. And now their heads are cold-blooded, clear and reasonable. Where investments are concerned, there is no place for the fantastic ideology of fascism.

Moreover, in reality, no theory of fascism, precisely as some kind of consistent worldview, does not exist at all. Fascist ideology is a surrogate of the most popular words and slogans at a given moment. They will tell you anything as long as you believe them. They will call themselves liberals, anti-capitalists, progressives, conservatives, communists, anti-socialists, revolutionaries and patriots. Who you want them to be – what the fascists will look like.

But this mimicry, ambiguity and deceit of fascism is not at all accidental, it is inherent in it just like any other business party. They all want to look like friends of the people, and they all think only of their wallets.

Fascist parties differ from ordinary capitalist parties only in their special methods, the practice of achieving the same goals that face such parties as United Russia, the Democratic and Republican Party of the United States, the Conservatives in Great Britain, the Christian Democratic Union in Germany, and so on. These goals are very easy to describe - increasing the profits of your entrepreneurial group. And the fascists here are not an exception.

While the October Revolution opened a new era to the world, which brought about changes on a scale unprecedented in the history of mankind, fascism gave the world nothing and cannot give anything, as long as fascism is only decay and death.