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To borrow from a certain Austrian politican from 1923
Besides, "The Fascist Party" was an organization originally founded by Benito Mussolini, having fallen out with the Italian Communist Party and formed his own reactionary splinter group. Fascism, as a reactionary response to the simultaneous popular appeal of socialism and the hostility it engenders from monarchism, is a synthesis of the two.
Fascism promises the red meat of social action that populists crave, while cultivating patronage with the aristocracy by deflecting criticism onto minorities. It is a "higher" form of political triangulation. Sort of the methamphetamine of politics, in so far as it juices the body politic to an enthusiastic euphoria of communal action that inevitably leads to self-destruction.
It is, in effect, all the worst aspects of socialism compounded upon itself. Rather than calling it "National Socialism" I would simply refer to it as "Socialism Done Badly".
Yes, the word Fascism originates from Italy, but that is the correct word to use.