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devotech2 on scored.co
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It's one thing that I think the italians had over the germans in doctrine. Mussolini actively wanted to export his movement, he was "globalist" without subscribing to "globalism", in a sense. While hitler just wanted to be left alone and fight the ussr to be able to be left alone, mussolini viewed the world (correctly) as inherently hostile to his ideology and wanted to build an alliance with friendly states and spread fascism to all "plutocracies", as he would put it, to ensure the survival of italy specifically and fascism as a doctrine generally. There were some people in the NSDAP who also followed that belief though. One of the strassers (I don't remember which one) also followed that idea, but hitler considered it to be political nonsense when he was broached about the subject. Hitler was wrong about this.
This was one of the major underpinnings behind italys territorial expansion. It wasnt just a desire to recreate the roman empire, it was an active attempt to export the revolution in the same manner that the USSR did by invading its periphery until ww2 ended. Mussolini held to the doctrine that ww2 was in fact a great big fascist revolution, more or less.
This is also the reason that italy invaded Greece. Nobody understand why italy invaded Greece, even though Greece was to italy what finland was to the ussr. People use the lackluster performance in greece as evidence of there being no justification for the war. This is wrong. Italy viewed Greece as a British puppet because it was(the UK installed the king of Greece a few years before the Italian invasion) and Greece was making backdoor deals in violation of its treaty with italy. And, of course, it was an attempt to spread fascism. Metaxis was not a fascist.
>This gigantic struggle is nothing other than a phase in the logical development of our revolution; it is the struggle of peoples that are poor but rich in workers against the exploiters
Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed
This was one of the major underpinnings behind italys territorial expansion. It wasnt just a desire to recreate the roman empire, it was an active attempt to export the revolution in the same manner that the USSR did by invading its periphery until ww2 ended. Mussolini held to the doctrine that ww2 was in fact a great big fascist revolution, more or less.
This is also the reason that italy invaded Greece. Nobody understand why italy invaded Greece, even though Greece was to italy what finland was to the ussr. People use the lackluster performance in greece as evidence of there being no justification for the war. This is wrong. Italy viewed Greece as a British puppet because it was(the UK installed the king of Greece a few years before the Italian invasion) and Greece was making backdoor deals in violation of its treaty with italy. And, of course, it was an attempt to spread fascism. Metaxis was not a fascist.
>This gigantic struggle is nothing other than a phase in the logical development of our revolution; it is the struggle of peoples that are poor but rich in workers against the exploiters
Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed