Well, I could get into a long essay about this. Facism, doctrinally, put state corpratism at the forefront and the nation above all. However, appealing as it does to the disenchanted working class, many prefer to take some “old labour” economics and mix it with racial nationalism. So I would say that a divergence from facism.

Socialists do have a genuine concern for the individual. I don’t disagree on the utter faliure of their economic policies regarding this, but their ideological position does not demand the same submission to the group explicitly; it just occurs in some areas almost as happenstance.

I think that in many areas of Western Europe it is socialists who lead on civil liberties bears this out. I couldn’t ever see a facist doing that.

I think Duncans comparision is illuminating, but not by intent. Regardless of the gap I see between libertarianism and liberalism, its obvious they both approach from an individual-oriented view. I do not think that a similar wide-view comparision can be made between socialism and facism, even if sometimes some economic comparisions can be found. Italian facist parties for example have no grounds for comparision at all- wheras with liberal and libertarian groups I do not expect this is ever the case.

Libertarianism is a broad church. There are those like the Rothbardians who take it as anarcho-capitalism, but when you look at the Cato Institute, Reason or even the Libertarian Party you see that its a far broader range.
Basically its liberalism - individualism, limited government, individual freedom, voluntary association. Just like in the 19th Century liberalism ran the gamut from Gladstone to Spencer and Herbert, today libertarianism has a similar diversity.
In the UK, due to the remnant of the original meaning of liberalism, libertarianism does tend to mean the Spencer and Herbert end of liberalism rather than the Gladstone, but even then, there’s plenty of diversity of thought and definitely no general leaning towards anarchism.

As for worker ownership of the means to production - that’s precisely what the NF spokesman was advocating…

Socialism, despite its many well meaning adherents, is inextricably linked with National Socialism.
True, National Socialists consciously choose nationality rather than class as the discriminating factor (but class is still a factor) and socialism seeks state ownership whereas national socialism seeks state control through corporatism, but these are just manifestations of the root ideology in socialism.

(Libertarianism is essentially liberalism anyway, its just a name taken on when liberalism came to mean interventionism and socialism in the US and to a lesser extent in the UK. True, some libertarians are extremely logical, but the old Liberal Party used to contain such people, and the liberal movement as a whole did even more so).

The violently intolerant nationalism of Marxist Sinn Fein displays similar features.