NS Fundamentals – Fascism vs National Socialism

Someone asked this question on X spaces the other day, and I briefly explained how the differences are relatively minute, and in modern context we will often use the terms interchangeably without losing any core meaning of the worldview.

Both Fascism and NS are revolutionary nationalist movements born in the 1920s–1930s.
Both reject liberal democracy, Marxism, and rootless international finance as enemies of the nation.
Both put the collective above the individual. The nation/race comes before personal freedom.
Both glorify hierarchy, strong leadership, discipline, and struggle.
Both adhere to and respect natural law and natural order. 
Both see the state as a tool to serve the people, not the other way around.
Both demand total loyalty to the folk and reject class war and division in favour of national/racial unity.

However, Italian fascists focused more on the state/nation as the supreme entity, with corporatism as the economic model and race being secondary. This was a luxury they could afford in a homogenous 1920s nation. They didn’t see the necessity of including race as the foremost basis, something Hitler took issue with and later encouraged them to codify racialism into their worldview.

Italian fascists also did not codify antisemitism into their political philosophy to the extent that National Socialists did.

The ideology of Italian fascism was at the time, and now, viewed as admirable but slightly incomplete to make it as strong as German National Socialism.

However, in modern politics and discourse, the distinction has become largely academic or semantic and can often be pedantic. Pragmatically, the worldviews are ultimately the same at a core level, putting a people first, forever.
Jack Eltis
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