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First you need to define Fascism. Lately I've considered fascism "state socialism" where everything and everyone is subsumed under an all-powerful state.

Some people go "noooooo fascism and national socialism are actually right wing bro source: everything I don't like is right wing trust me bro", but historical facts show us that the creators of both ideologies were already strongly aligned with the left. Mussolini was a card carrying member of the socialist party, and Hitler was elected the leader of his Soviet during a German communist revolution. Seeing the problems with Class socialism, both of these leftists decided to try to create a new socialism with blackjack and hookers. One of the reasons Marxists hate fascism so much is that there's nobody socialists hate more than other socialists.

So one of the problems immediately is that socialism sucks. One of the reasons it pretty much always fails is that it contains a worldview that is flawed. It assumes that utopia can be obtained by just properly socialising the populace. That goes for fascism and German national socialism as well. If you hand a group of people unlimited power, then you're almost always going to have monsterous people see that and try to get into that one group that has unlimited power.

Systems that work over a long period of time find a way to balance power between different groups. The government is one group that has power, but typically so are the military, the merchant class, and the priesthood. If you give any one of these groups unlimited power, it doesn't turn out well, because each one is dysfunctional as a totalizing impulse even if each of them has their important role to play in society.

Another problem with fascism is described in my book: “The truth is, everybody thinks that they want fascism because they imagine that fascism will do exactly what they want and nothing more. They look at all the groups of people that they do not like and they imagine that the fascists will go and clamp down on those people and then just stop. Reality is not so kind. Yes, the evil empire did go out and do reprehensible things to the group that they identified as causing the problem. Of course, you do not need to make any kind of choices to whether someone of that particular group caused any problems to realize that most people within any given group are not responsible for the actions of the few. Within any given group there are lots of people who are just trying to sit back and live their lives without hurting anyone. Despite that, this great evil empire went out and exterminated a people. They did not stop there though. To them, even amongst the people that they claimed to protect and try to save there were two sorts of people: those who supported the regime and those who did not. For many of those who supported the regime, they were given the means to gain tremendous wealth and power in a very short period of time. For those who did not, they had their livelihood stripped away, they were shunned, in some cases they joined the groups who faced extermination.”