How come people talk about the crimes of the Germans and Japanese during WWII but not the OG fascists? It is because they probably only killed maybe a couple million at best while the other two killed tens of millions? Does anyone have any good resources on Italian fascism specifically how the capitalists aided and abetted it?
Also, where did the meme that the Italian fascists weren't racist come from? Was it cause Mussolini expressed doubt about race as a concept one time? It sounds like they were pretty racist against the peoples they conquered to me fam.
Memes. Race was an essential part of the fascist platform the idea Mussolini was significantly less racist than Hitler because of that one out of context quote is totally unfounded.
Colton Flores
i think it was more because italian fascism was more around culture, and they tied the italian race to their italian culture?
Justin Lopez
Italy was fucking pathetic during the war, they could not even get to occupy france.
William Jackson
What racist things did Italy do that go beyond imperialists trampling on the foreigners?
Christopher Taylor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Fascism_and_racism Also, using poison gas and other war crimes against Ethiopians was certainly genocidal. There was a left-wing Italian activist who coined the phrase "racist hysteria" to describe the atmosphere of Mussolini's Italy but unfortunately I forgot his name.
Lucas Turner
So did he have any sort of beliefs of his own or is he just a pure opportunist?
Adrian Myers
Hard to say. Did Hitler believe all the shit that he autistically spewed? Most historians believe that he did, but it appears he expressed some skepticism about the Jewish conspiracy in his Table Talk. We also know that his Einsatzgruppen commanders pointed out that exterminating Jews in the USSR was counter-productive when it came to their primary goal of restoring capitalism in the USSR.
Whether Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, or the Japanese fascists really believed in half of the shit they spewed I think is more of a question for the Great Spook in the Sky than it is one for historians or leftists.
