Fascism and Nazism is Socialism

Benito Mussolini:

"It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. . . [Marx] had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet." - 1932 interview

"The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated." - Il Duce p. 56

“Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism" - Opera Omnia di Benito Mussolini

“You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me... Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution." - after being expelled from the Italian Socialist Party in 1914

"During my whole life I was an internationalist socialist. When the Great War broke out I saw that all our parties that were internationalists became nationalist socialists, that happened to me and that is fascism." - Cesar Vedal, interview of Mussolini by a foreign journalist

During hostile exchanges with opposing socialist factions, he would retort that if anyone depicted him and his comrades as “conservatives or reactionaries,” they were “downright imbeciles.” (Opera Omnia di Benito Mussolini, p. 309)

"Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nation. . . the object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people. . . What does social justice mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes, it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline. . . As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labour." - Four Speeches On The Corporate State, pages 39 to 40.

On page 38 of "Four Speeches on The Corporate State", Mussolini states fascism economics are "“based not on individual profit but on collective interest.”

"The Fascist conception of life accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with the State. . . Fascism reasserts the rights of the state. If classical liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government.... [fascism] is opposed to classical Liberalism. . . Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual." - 1935 translation of the Doctrine of Fascism

"We go to battle against the plutocratic and reactionary democracies of the West... this gigantic struggle is nothing other than a phase in the logical development of our revolution; it is the struggle of peoples that are poor but rich in workers against the exploiters..." - June 10 1940 Declaration of War against England

"Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are. . . Italy, Republic, Socialization. . . Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism. . ." - October 14, 1944 speech to resega officers

In his autobiography, Mussolini boasted of his social welfare accomplishments, writing that “Italy is advanced beyond all other European nations.” He listed, among others, the eight-hour workday, old age pension, assistance and benefits, adult education, and efforts to enact minimum wage laws. (P. 277)

"To-day we  affirm that the capitalistic method of production is out of date. So is the doctrine of  laissez-faire, the theoretical basis of capitalism. . . To-day we are taking a new and decisive step in the path of revolution. A revolution, in order to be great, must be a social revolution." - November 1933 speech on corporatism

“Italy is not a capitalist country according to the meaning now conventionally assigned to that term.” - Same speech above.

"For this I have been and am a socialist. The accusation of inconsistency has no foundation. My conduct has always been straight in the sense of looking at the substance of things and not to the form. I adapted  socialisticamente to reality. As the evolution of society belied many of the prophecies of Marx, the true socialism folded from possible to probable. The only feasible socialism  socialisticamente is corporatism, confluence, balance and justice interests compared to the collective interest." - 1945 Interview with Ivanoe Fossani

Lenin on Mussolini: “Mussolini? A great pity he is lost to us! He is a strong man, who would have led our party to victory.” (Life of Benito Mussolini, p. 278)

Trotsky on Mussolini being ousted from the Italian socialist party: "Why have you allowed Mussolini to leave your ranks?" (Sarfatti, "Mussolini as I Knew Him", p. 41)

Adolf Hitler:

"Socialism as the final concept of duty, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one’s fellow man’s sake, and above all the principle: Common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned income." - his "Why We Are Anti-Semites" Speech

Confessions to economic advisor Otto Wagener, see his book "Hitler- Memoirs of a Confidant":

"After all, that’s exactly why we call ourselves National Socialists! We want to start by implementing socialism in our nation among our Volk! It is not until the individual nations are socialist that they can address themselves to international socialism."

"Aren’t these liberals, those reprobate defenders of individualism, ashamed to see the tears of the mothers and wives, or don’t these cold-blooded accountants even notice? Have they already grown so inhuman that they are no longer capable of feeling? It is understandable why bolshevism simply removed such creatures. They were worthless to humanity, nothing but an encumbrance to their Volk. Even the bees get rid of the drones when they can no longer be of service to the hive. The Bolshevik procedures are thus quite natural."

From a conversation with Hermann Raschung:

"The party is all-embracing. . . Each activity and each need of the individual will thereby be regulated by the party as the representative of the general good. . . This is Socialism—not such trifles as the private possession of the means of production. Of what importance is that if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the party, is supreme over all, regardless of whether they are owners or workers. . . Our Socialism goes far deeper. . . [the people] have entered a new relation. . . What are ownership and income to that? Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings."

"I have learned a great deal from Marxism as I do not hesitate to admit. . . The difference between them and myself is that I have really put into practice what these peddlers and pen pushers have timidly begun. The whole of National Socialism is based on it. . . National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order."

Hitler was mentored by Gottfried Feder. Feder also collaborated with him on the staunchly anti-capitalist 25 planks of national socialism. According to historian Konrad Heiden, "Gottfried Feder gave the Nazi Party an ideology. Its essential points were paramount State ownership of land and the prohibition of private sales of land, the substitution of German for Roman law, nationalization of the banks and the abolition of interest by an amortization service. It was he, too, who inspired the Party with its doctrine of the distinction between productive and non-productive capital and of the necessity for destroying the “slavery of profits.”"

“The bourgeoisie rules by intrigue, but it can have no foothold in my movement because we accept no Jews or Jewish accomplices into our Party. Today’s bourgeoisie is rotten to the core; it has no ideals any more; all it wants to do is earn money and so it does me what damage it can. The bourgeois press does me damage too and would like to consign me and my movement to the devil." - 1931 confidential interview

"I am a Socialist, and a very different kind of Socialist from your rich friend, Count Reventlow. . . . What you understand by Socialism is nothing more than Marxism." - Lecture to Otto Strasser

"Capitalism as a whole will now be destroyed. . . We are not fighting Jewish or Christian capitalism, we are fighting very capitalism: we are making the people completely free." - Munich April 12, 1922 speech

Joseph Goebbels:

“I think it is terrible that we [the Nazis] and the Communists are bashing in each other’s heads. . . Where can we get together sometime with the leading Communists?” - January 31, 1926 diary entry

"We are against the political bourgeoisie, and for genuine nationalism! We are against Marxism, but for true socialism! We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature! We are for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party!"

"The worker in a capitalist state—and that is his deepest misfortune—is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker. He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces- Both from "Those Damned Nazis" propaganda pamphlet

“England is a capitalist democracy. Germany is a socialist people’s state...” "It is also why English capitalists want to destroy Hitlerism. They see Hitlerism as all the generous social reforms that have occurred in Germany since 1933. The English plutocrats rightly fear that good things are contagious, that they could endanger English capitalism." - "England's Guilt" speech, fall of 1939

“You and I, we are fighting each other but we are not really enemies. . . Maybe the final extremity will bring us together. Maybe.” - “My Friends of the Left" open letter, addressed to communists