Mussolini did not "call himself a Socialist in high school":
We have one guy who is willing to put his name on the line in a published book, saying that the kid said he was a socialist in high school and that he became the secretary of a socialist organization at 18, after being raised as a socialist, and that he joined the socialist party at 17; then we have you saying that he was the "acknowledged leader" of the socialist party's far left about ten years later, but that he never said such a thing while in high school.
Are you saying he didn't join the Socialist party while in high school, or that he joined and never called himself that?
Goldberg has the note: "in 1913 Sorell said "Mussolini is no ordinary Socialist. One day you will see him at the head of a consecrated battalion, greeting the Italian banner with his dagger. He is an Italian of the 15th century, a condottire. you do not know it yet. But he is the one energetic man who had the capacity to correct the weakness of the government." (Kirkpatrick, Mussolini) He also notes Mussolini as writing: "That which I am...I owe to Sorel...he is an accomplished Master who, with his sharp theories on revolutionary formations, contributed to the molding of the Fascist cohorts." (A. James Gregor, the Ideology of Fascism)
In 1911 he became the editor of "La lotta di classe (class war)" which was the voice of the extreme wing of the socialist party, and in 1912 at the Socialist Congress joined extremists in accused some folks of being bad for congratulating the king for not being assassinated.
Alright, we've proven Mussolini's socialist kudos just fine; this shows that fascism is TOTALLY different from fascism...how, exactly?
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We have one guy who is willing to put his name on the line in a published book, saying that the kid said he was a socialist in high school and that he became the secretary of a socialist organization at 18, after being raised as a socialist, and that he joined the socialist party at 17; then we have you saying that he was the "acknowledged leader" of the socialist party's far left about ten years later, but that he never said such a thing while in high school.
Are you saying he didn't join the Socialist party while in high school, or that he joined and never called himself that?
Goldberg has the note:
"in 1913 Sorell said "Mussolini is no ordinary Socialist. One day you will see him at the head of a consecrated battalion, greeting the Italian banner with his dagger. He is an Italian of the 15th century, a condottire. you do not know it yet. But he is the one energetic man who had the capacity to correct the weakness of the government." (Kirkpatrick, Mussolini)
He also notes Mussolini as writing:
"That which I am...I owe to Sorel...he is an accomplished Master who, with his sharp theories on revolutionary formations, contributed to the molding of the Fascist cohorts." (A. James Gregor, the Ideology of Fascism)
In 1911 he became the editor of "La lotta di classe (class war)" which was the voice of the extreme wing of the socialist party, and in 1912 at the Socialist Congress joined extremists in accused some folks of being bad for congratulating the king for not being assassinated.
Alright, we've proven Mussolini's socialist kudos just fine; this shows that fascism is TOTALLY different from fascism...how, exactly?