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coolbeans said:
VGPolyglot said:

That was a pretty roundabout way of avoiding to answer the question.

You mean aside from my first sentence providing a wider context to your question? 

Faust said:

dude, what do u want me to say? someone said communism and fascism are both left wing ideologies, i said nope, then u said nope, then i said, ok dope.

Well when I said nope it was in an effort of challenging part of the argument to make your case.  Your rebuttal back to me was a strawman.

Well, your posts afterwards muddied it. In regards to Mussolini specifically, yes he was a socialist before but he had dropped those leanings when he embraced fascism. I also gave examples earlier in this thread that dispute Hitler being a socialist, namely the existence of private industry and even privatization of certain sectors. It was the same with fascist Italy:

http://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/12319

So, it's not just baseless to call them right-wing.