@Purple Tiger
Bigun is closer to it than you or Purp.
Fascism is indistinguishable from socialism except fascist government controls the means of production, distribution, pricing and wages while leaving businesses in the hands of the owners who know how to run them; the state controls the owner and often nationalizes uncooperative businesses. In socialism, Ivan tosses the keys to the plant to cousin Igor who proceeds to run it into the ground and ensure there are vast shortages of critical goods, food being an excellent example.
It is a distinction without a difference, and the left never ceases to make idiots of themselves by going through contortions to do just that.
Antifa are violent, anti-Western dregs that walk and quack just like Brown and Blackshirts. And yes, there is a strong element of anarchism and socialism/communism among them, it is hardly a secret. In fact, the defining characteristic of anarchism
and communism (Marxist) is a stateless society, where we all barter, horse trade, write poems and live harmoniously until those trying to barter finger paintings for a side of beef begin starving, and some "man of the people" promises to save them.
Well, hey, that sounds similar to socialism! Damn skippy it does. That's because socialism it not conceived as a permanent economic (thus societal) state, but a transition to communism from capitalism. The commie "Hey, I can just work in my garden all day and give my neighbor a head or two of cabbage, and he'll give me a chicken!" utopia sounds better than the "You will be assigned a garden plot to work, and you will have cabbage apportioned to you. Someday you will have chicken." socialist utopia.
Fascist leaders have typically seen themselves as the evolution of socialism, eschewing the cumbersome, unmanageable internationalist model of socialism for an efficient and practical nationalist model. And they were right. Fascism was a far more successful form of socialism, dramatically and quickly improving the lives of German citizens in contrast to other implementations.
In practicality, the difference between international socialism and national socialism, is that you'd much rather be a fascist citizen.