• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    To be historically correct, the nazis were not fascists, they were Nazis. The italians with Mussolini were fascists. Hitler wanted so hard to be a fascist, a bit like donald wants to be putin.

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      To be historically correct, the nazis were not fascists

      Incorrect. Nazism is a form of fascism. They’re not mutually exclusive any more than either is with the even broader category 'right wing politics ".

      The italians with Mussolini were fascists

      The original ones, yeah, but nowhere near the only ones.

      Hitler and other later fascists (including the ones currently in charge of the US government) basically built their own variant of the same basic recipe

      Hitler wanted so hard to be a fascist, a bit like donald wants to be putin.

      All three are (were in the case of Hitler and hopefully all of them soon) fascists, just different flavors.

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        I agree to it all except hitler wasn’t a pure fascist because he couldn’t take over the german companies and so on. It’s nitpicking ofc. but as evil as they both were there are differences.

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          hitler wasn’t a pure fascist

          Again, that’s not how fascism works. It doesn’t have to be a carbon copy of the original Mussolini fascism in order to be fascism.

          as evil as they both were there are differences.

          Yes, but the similarities are such that they still both fit into the basic category of fascism.

          It’s nitpicking ofc

          That, and a misunderstanding of what constitutes fascism.

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            It fits todays definition of fashism.

            Not the one in the 1920-30-40, that was why I said “historically”.

            I don’t disagree with you.