fascism

is marked by hostility to democratic parliamentary government, like communism, and thus after fascism was overthrown, it was not hard for a certain number of ex-Blackshirts to swing to left-wing political extremism.

And in their common hostility to democratic parliamentary government, the Fascists and Communist often found themselves appealing to the same kinds of alienated people. A good many Fascists (beginning with Mussolini himself) came from the ranks of left-wing Marxism and syndicalism, and when the Fascist regime was overthrown in 1943-45 it was not hard for a certain number of ex-Blackshirts to swing to left-wing political extremism.

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