# Did the Socialist and the Fascist party share the electoral programme in Italy? Tags: italy, fascism - Score: 15 - Views: 1357 - Answers: 4 - Answered: yes - Asked by: o0'. (1732 rep) - Asked: 2013-11-25 - Site: history ## Question I was taught that in the early twenties the Socialist and the Fascist parties programmes were more or less identical, except for just one nationalist clause in the Fascist party's programme. Despite those parties being rivals, it actually made sense, since the Fascist party was born out of Social origins; strangely, though, I wasn't able to find those programmes. Did such a thing really happen, or was I mis-taught? ## Answers ### Answer by Ne Mo (score: 0 [ACCEPTED]) No they didn't, but there's a grain of truth there, as there often is with propaganda. The axe being ground is the attempt to insinuate that Mussolini was a socialist or that socialists are fascists - you'll know from reading the history that Hitler, Franco, Musslolini, and the others were opposed by the socialists and abetted by conservatives at every stage in their rise to power. So for the grain of truth - as is well known, Mussolini was indeed a former socialist and member of