Socialism has never been a buzzword in North American Leftist circles but it certainly was for a very long time in the rest of the world. And to modern day British Leftists too socialism has a meaning that is more nostalgic and emotional than concrete and many would be prepared to admit that it is functionally “dead”. Mussolini, however was 70 years earlier in announcing the death. It should be noted, however, that Mussolini was principally referring here to the policies and doctrines of his own former Socialist Party — which was explicitly Marxist — and which were far more extreme than the socialism of (say) Clement Attlee and the postwar British Labour party.
“Fascism ….. was born of the need for action and it was itself from the beginning practical rather than theoretical”.
Modern-day Leftist demonstrators too seem to be more interested in dramatic actions than in any coherent theory.
” one would there find no ordered expression of doctrine but a series of aphorisms, anticipations and aspirations”.
This is how Mussolini described early Fascist meetings. Modern-day Leftist agitators too seem more interested in slogans than in any form of rational debate.
You can see modern examples of this today when they scream “no blood for oil!” “Halliburton”, etc..
