https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and a journalist at the
Avanti! newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the
Italian Socialist Party (PSI),
[7] but he was expelled from the PSI for advocating military intervention in
World War I, in opposition to the party's stance on neutrality. In 1914, Mussolini founded a new newspaper,
Il Popolo d'Italia, and served in the
Royal Italian Army during the war until he was wounded and discharged in 1917. Mussolini denounced the PSI, his views now centering on
Italian nationalism instead of
socialism, and later founded the fascist movement which came to oppose
egalitarianism[8] and
class conflict, instead advocating "
revolutionary nationalism"
transcending class lines.
[9] On 31 October 1922, following the March on Rome (28–30 October), Mussolini was appointed prime minister by
King Victor Emmanuel III, becoming the youngest individual to hold the office up to that time. After removing all political opposition through his secret police and outlawing labor strikes,
[10] Mussolini and his followers consolidated power through a series of laws that transformed the nation into a
one-party dictatorship. Within five years, Mussolini had established dictatorial authority by both legal and illegal means and aspired to create a
totalitarian state. In 1929, Mussolini signed the
Lateran Treaty with the Holy See to establish
Vatican City.
There are many aspects of the Fascist era, like the pensions, that were completely socialistic.
At the end of the day, Mussolini was a complete quick-change artist that followed whatever idea would give him power and credit. Disgusting.
Saying that Nazism is a type of fascism is again, a simplification.
Nazism copied aspects of fascism, but it is much more complicated than this.