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Draft: Nationalism, fascism, socialism

 Intro "We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism. Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program, and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative. If its views had prevailed, our survival in the world of today would be impossible." – Benito Mussolini One would be beating a dead horse today by claiming that a main feature of nationalism is to sort out and exclude people. When it comes to nationalism, one inevitably hears the bromide, attributed to Charles de Gaulle, that what distinguishes "ultra nationalism" from "healthy nationalism", or put differently, "nationalism from patriotism" is that nationalists hate others, and patriots simply love their own people. Ironically, this line about simply loving one's own people that is bandied about by today's democracy-lo...