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Yes. What was a "right winger" doing with a medallion of Karl Marx doing in his pocket is a stupid question and "what job do you do?" are stupid questions. Keep telling yourself buddy.
I think people with extremely low IQs first need to understand they have extremely low IQs. For example, I witnessed you arguing for three hours last night that Benito Mussolini was a socialist. I'm afraid that no college in the world is going to let you in when you are that stupid.
Let me assist you courtesy of econlib , “state capitalism “ is yet another term you toss about , read on buddy .....
On numerous occasions, Benito Mussolini identified his economic policies with “state capitalism”—the exact phrase that Vladimir Lenin used to usher in his New Economic Policy (NEP). Lenin wrote: “State capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic.”2 After Russia’s economy collapsed in 1921, Lenin allowed privatization and private initiative, and he let the people trade, buy and sell for private profit.3 Lenin was moving towards a mixed economy. He even demanded that state-owned companies operate on profit/loss principles.4 Lenin acknowledged that he had to back away from total socialism and allow some capitalism.
For more background information, see “Marxism”, by David L. Prychitko and “Socialism”, by Robert Heilbroner in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Mussolini followed Lenin’s example and proceeded to establish a state-driven economic model in Italy. In essence, Mussolini’s fascism was simply an imitation of Lenin’s “third way,” which combined market-based mechanisms and socialism—similar to Red China’s “market socialism.” In short, Lenin’s revised Marxism culminated in “socialist-lite” policies that helped inspire Mussolini to craft his own Italian-style fascism with a right-wing socialist twist. Thus, one could argue that Lenin’s politics were the first modern-day version of fascism and state-corporatism.
Let me assist you courtesy of econlib , “state capitalism “ is yet another term you toss about , read on buddy
I'm not reading anything you post because you're fucking retarded. You failed the retard test several times and there is no coming back from that.
It isn't complicated. State capitalism is then the state runs a capitalist economy. Communism is when the means of production are owned by the workers instead of the financial elite and/or a monarch.
I’m not reading anything you post because you're fucking retarded. You failed the retard test several times and there is no coming back from that.
Translation......You have no defence yet again what a shocker 😱
It isn't complicated.
I know , but it seems to be for you because of your genetic stupidity
State capitalism is then the state runs a capitalist economy. Communism is when the means of production are owned by the workers instead of the financial elite and/or a monarch.
Zzzzzzzzzzz ........ Maybe you could attempt another try at telling us all what socialism actually is as you seem to make it up as you go along 🤣 .......How’s your time machine doing? 🤣🤣🤣
Local commies agreed that Mussolini was socialist before he was fascist (right before, in fact). Therefore, saying Mussolini was a socialist is not inconsistent with the facts. No one is claiming he wasn’t a fascist. That would be as stupid as claiming that the Soviets weren’t communist. But no one is doing that, right?
Local commies agreed that Mussolini was socialist before he was fascist (right before, in fact).
It is a fact that Mussolini was once a socialist. His father was a socialist and he grew up with socialist ideology in his life.
What is not true is the absurd idea you are trying to sell that people cannot change their mind about things. After Mussolini fought in WW1 his political views changed radically, and he began to blame socialism for making Italy weak. He abhorred the lack of support socialists had given to the war and began to believe nationalism (i.e. blind support for one's country under any circumstances) should transcend the class struggle which is the very basis upon which socialism is built.
You are revising history in an effort to smear socialism, it is pathetically obvious, and you should stop doing it. If a man grows up as an atheist, then changes his mind and becomes a Muslim, it is not atheism which is responsible for the suicide bombing he conducts. Yet, to analogise, you would like to convince us that posting information about his life only until the point he converted to Islam is a logically honest thing to do, and that spamming the word atheism all over the page is going to change the fact that he was a Muslim.
In sum, you are stupid, you are corrupt and you are a horrible person. That's a bad combination of characteristics.
So you see, once again you are trying to put your words into my mouth. Perhaps I am the worst person alive, which is why it is so easy for me to notice that you're a thoroughly dishonest prick. Either way, your tu quoque fallacy detracts nothing from the fact that you are a lamentably horrible person.
Haha. As always the quality of your posts lies solely in the humor of your accidental irony.
The irony is that you clearly don't understand what irony is. Irony is not deflecting criticism for your own intellectual dishonesty onto other people, and then declaring it "irony" when those other people point out what you are doing. That's just called being a moron.
Oh shut up you boring troll. You went digging through Wikipedia and linked everything you could find about him with the word "socialism" in it. Given that he was a far right ultra-fascist whose views were a million miles away from socialism, at the literal opposite end of the political spectrum, there is only one plausible reason why you would do that. And that's because you are a thoroughly corrupt Mussolini protege who thinks he can mislead other people about socialism. Mussolini declared war on socialism and spent most of his later life attacking it. It is no coincidence that you are spending your later life doing the same.
When he was 19 years old you fucking boring fascist retard. Why do you keep pretending that he didn't grow older, abandon socialism, join the ultra far right, create a fascist state and declare war on socialism?
The answer is of course spectacularly obvious. You don't want people to know that because you are an ultra far right fascist retard who is trying to revise history.
See:-
At the age of 19, a short, pale young man with a powerful jaw and enormous, dark, piercing eyes, he left Italy for Switzerland with a nickel medallion of Karl Marx in his otherwise empty pockets.
and claimed to be a Socialist right before his death.
Firstly, you have provided zero evidence of this. Secondly, he was shot to death by socialists for being a fascist. He was literally captured by Italian communists, tried and executed by firing squad in 1945.
At the age of 19, a short, pale young man with a powerful jaw and enormous, dark, piercing eyes, he left Italy for Switzerland with a nickel medallion of Karl Marx in his otherwise empty pockets.
Which doesn't tell us in any way, shape, or form whether or not that medallion was in his pocket at age 25, 30, or 40. It simply shows he loved Marx at 19 and left with a medallion of him.
Also, this quote is from the 1930s, which is well after he was 19. He was born in 1883.
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. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… [Marx] had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.
As quoted in Talks with Mussolini , Emil Ludwig, Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company (1933) p. 38. Interview between March 23 and April 4, 1932, at the Palazzo di Venezia in Rome [1]
