This Day in History: Benito Mussolini starts his Fascist political movement on this day in 1919. While it is fashionable to state that Fascism is right-wing, Mussolini was a Socialist and he was immersed in socialism by his father. Fascism and Communism (Socialism) were (and are) so similar that they had to define themselves in opposition to each other in order to survive. As an economic system, says Sheldon Richman, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer:
"Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically."
See also: Thought-Provoking Quotes about Socialism
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2018/08/thought-provoking-quotes-about-socialism.html
Economics is the Queen of all Sciences by Henry D. Macleod M.A. 1896
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2018/02/economics-is-queen-of-all-sciences-by.html
See also Over 300 PDF/Acrobat Books on Socialism, Communism and Economics on DVDrom
http://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2015/10/over-300-pdfacrobat-books-on-socialism.html
See also Over 300 PDF/Acrobat Books on Socialism, Communism and Economics and 300 Books on DVDrom for Libertarians, Objectivists and Voluntaryists
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