I'm legitimately stunned by the sheer stupidity here. I guess you reactionaries really like your revisionist history.
Like legit, fascism as a branch of socialism? Are you joking?
Giovanni Gentille's perspective on America's liberal democracy was that it was a system that was "too individualistic, and therefore selfish and greedy"; in response, he thought up of a family-based "all in this together" organization of society in which people are categorized by both class and by their overall national identity. Ultimately, the goal of fascism was to make "private interests indistinguishable from public interests" by people willingly submitting to society through the administrative arm of society, the state. Hence, Gentille described "True Democracy" (AKA fascism) as people, in the best interests of their fellow man, willingly submitting themselves the state.
Meanwhile, socialism is also based in the group and not the individual, with the main mantra of socialism as defined by Karl Marx being "the means of production belonging to the community as a whole". If you ask any mouth-breathing college socialist, they'll probably tell you that out of all the economic systems ever conceived, capitalism is by far the greediest. Hell, even in my multiple-page argument with Kimon, he repeatedly stated that with socialism, people could more easily work in the best interests of society, rather than for their own separate interests. And it goes without saying that it's a utopian idea that everyone is going to do that, so you'd need to enforce it through the use of government.
You can even draw from Gentille's philosophy the desire for a centralized government. If people are submitting to the state willingly, then the state would theoretically get more powerful, taking control of more and more of the private sector as private interests were made indistinguishable from public ones. If you look at the Democratic party's platform, moderates advocate for government controlled healthcare and welfare programs and the radicals advocate for free college paid for by the government.
Fascism
is a branch of socialism, as stated by Gentille himself. If you want to compare the two, you'd quickly see that all fascists are are socialists with a national identity.
National socialists? Where have I heard that one before?
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