"1921 19th Cent. July 148 The Fascismo was born in the provinces, where the extremist menace was stronger. 1922 Q. Rev. Jan. 148 A section of the Press now veered completely round to the cause of Fascism. The Fascist terror increased in intensity. 1923 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 44 We do not want Fascismo in this country. Ibid. Nov. 557 Fascism in Germany will never be more than one of several factors. 1925 Weekly Westm. Gaz. 10 Jan. 320/2 The outrages which have been associated with Fascism have gradually alienated much of the support which it won two years ago. 1934 tr. K. Heiden's National Socialism xvii. 354 The electoral victories all over Europe with which the Labour Parties have replied to German Fascism. 1936 Discovery Dec. 378/1, I have strongly criticized modern education and the methods of handling youth generally as inculcating excessive respect for authority and thereby conducing to the growth of Fascism. 1939 A. COBBAN Dictatorship v. 124 In March 1919. Fascism was still a revolutionary and socialist movement, hostile to the monarchy, to finance, and to parliamentary government, demanding social reform and workers' control, but separated from the other branches of the socialist movement by its intense nationalism. 1965 L. VENNEWITZ tr. Nolte's Three Faces Fascism II. ii. 87 Maurras was the first man in Europe who as a thinker and a politician drove conservatism beyond the limits dividing it from incipient fascism. 1971 Tablet 26 June 616/2 (title) The ghost of Fascism."

"When the factories of Milan and Turin were occupied by the workers, Mussolini held a conference with Bruno Buozzi, who held a place equivalent to that of Sam Gompers in our American Federal of Labor. He proposed using the factory occupation as the beginning of a military movement to seize Rome and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat. Buozzi indignantly kicked Mussolini out; labor believed in the democratic political processes, and the main proof was that not a single act of violence marked the factory seizures, although the press of the world for a month ran daily lies of bloodshed and terrorism.

"Within a few days Mussolini had sold the same idea to the owners of the occupied factories - only this time the same Blackshirts were to be used to create a dictatorship of Big Business, rather than of workers.... [Adriano] Olivetti and company put up the money, Mussolini took Rome. And in payment of the subsidizers his first important act was the abolition of all labor unions.... From the day he became dictator Mussolini began paying back the men who pained him in 1920. He abolished the tax on inheritance, for example.... His chief opponent was the Socialist deputy [Giacomo] Matteotti. The reason Matteotti had to die was because he committed the one unforgivable crime in a Fascist nation: he exposed the profits in Fascism.

"There is no program, no policy, no ideology and certainly no philosophy back of Fascism.... It is nothing but a spoils system.... Fascism is a system whereby a handful of ruling families get the entire nation...."

Fascism: 1) always initially funded by wealthy interests; 2) uses slogans appealing to middle class values to gain support, easily dropped if conflicting with wealthy interests desires—consider term limits, and the rant against the national debt; 3) economically, wages always drop, profits always go up, as do product prices; 4) the percentage of wealth held in the hand of the few always increases, while the standard of living on average drops; 5) unionism and worker unrest condemned as unpatriotic; 6) middle class values are always touted as superior, while the economic base of this same class is eroded.

Communism: 1) belief in development of ideology, rather than mass collective action like the fascists; 2) persecution of the wealthy in order to economically fund the substitution of a class of communist bureaucrats; 3) product prices are locked in, worker standard of living is locked in, and profits of enterprise directed towards provision of salaries and benefits for the new class of bureaucrats; 4) economic performance is geared solely to provision of a good life for bureaucrats, with these Individuals able to use patronage system to gain allegiance from worker elements. 5) Long-term standard of Living average goes down, as diseconomies of production appear.

Both systems deny personal liberty. Both systems develop secret police systems to control the masses. Economic performance suffers because both ignore supply and demand functions. Fascism is controlled by the wealthy property and industrial interests who prosper along with the police machine. Communism is run by ideological bureaucrats developed in a tight cell system

Eric Hoffer in "Today's Isms" commented on the like mentality of individuals attracted to ideologies which provided a template Ideal Citizen that the individual could identify with. I have some reservations about this casualty. Fascism remains a form of tribalism underscored by a military regimen of top-down authority. Communism seems a form of banditry, in the terms of Band [“bond, tie, ribbon’], based upon a claim of moral or ethical superiority defined by Intellectual elitism. The only real unitary thread between them lies in violence, and the presentation of an Ideal Citizen concept.

Again, Fascism has been long associated with wealth and the military. It particularly represents a transfer of military regime to politics. Communism, on the other hand, represents a true revolutionary spirit of anarchism with desire to destroy established wealth and power, but originates not in actually oppressed people, only in an educated elite that cannot seem to function in an ordinary economic milieu. Actual oppressed peoples opt for forms of unionism, simply to better their immediate economic position.

Modern corporatism is essentially unlike either, though it mostly closely adheres to the fascist pattern. It is a corruption of both capitalism and fascism. It violates capitalism as it replaces free market with corporate price schedules designed to produce economic profits. It corrupts fascism as it abandons the welfare of the Tribe for the simple enrichment of the corporate leadership, much like the Communist mentality.

Both movements sought to improve the materialistic life patterns of their supporters. A pattern of individual corruption remains obvious in both movements, much higher than in union/socialist or republican forms. I believe the extreme forms of Fascism and Communism is simply the expression of corruption in corporate and union/socialist models.