Genivaria wrote:Pannerstone wrote:Fascism never failed on it's own, it was defeated militarily(which required a large amount of the world uniting to stop it)
That is funny actually Fascism has a higher success rate than communism, seeing as it actually existed.
So Fascism failed by one of it's own standards.
Don't start crap when you can't finish it.
i wouldn't say that fascism failed because it was militaristic; the fascist state of Italy failed because they chose the wrong enemies. I point to Sorairo's timeline "In the Footprint of Mussolini" on alternatehistory.com.
If Mussolini decided to antagonize Hitler further and keep its pledge of protection to Austria, then a fascist or at least authoritarian Italy may have survived, or at least until Mussolini died and if the youth wouldn't get more fanatic like they would've in a successful Nazi Germany. Fascism in Italy was a stabilizing force, much like Titoism in Yugoslavia; it was popular, and it was effective at stabilizing the fragile systems of Italy (that they left in place, anyway). They were popular with the Catholics to an extent (Fascist Italy oversaw the creation of the Vatican), popular with the youth, popular with the right, somewhat popular with the left (they had a few socialist characteristics, with Mussolini being a former communist), and extremely popular with the military.
Also, this is important: DON'T TAKE THIS AS AN IDEALIZATION OF FASCISM.
I hate fascism. It's a terrible idea that would only work in fragile states and would, eventually, come crashing down, like every political system ever. It simply would last longer in Italy because it was so popular.