Edited sentence: (Certain forms of libertarian socialism reject the state altogether.(See political spectrum for more on these ideas.) Meanwhile, fascism holds the state to be an end in and of itself, which the people should obey and serve, rather than the other way around.A fascist government is usually characterized as "extreme right-wing," and a socialist government as "left-wing".Fascism developed in opposition to socialism and communism.Fascism rejects the central tenets of Marxism, which are class struggle, and the need to replace capitalism with a society run by the working class in which the workers own the means of production.Fascists, like Marxists, were critical of the capitalist liberal democracies, but unlike the Marxists, their criticisms focused more on the liberal democratic aspects than the capitalism.Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Hayek, and others argue that the differences between fascism and totalitarian forms of socialism (see Stalinism) are more superficial than actual, since those self-proclaimed "socialist" governments did not live up to their claims of serving the people and respecting democratic principles.Indeed, there is a lot of literature on the influence of Catholicism on fascism and the links between the clergy and fascist parties in Europe before and during World War II.It is also frequently noted that Fascist Italy did not nationalize any industries or capitalist entities.Many socialists and communists also reject those totalitarian governments, seeing them as fascism with a socialist mask.Mussolini completely rejected the Marxist concept of class struggle or the Marxist thesis that the working class must expropriate the means of production.Rather, it established a corporatist structure influenced by the model for class relations put forward by the Catholic Church.Since Marxism is the ideological basis of Communism, they argue that the comparisons drawn by Arendt and others are invalid.Socialists and other critics of Arendt and Hayek maintain that there is no ideological overlap between Fascism and Marxism; they regard the two as utterly distinct.The fascists themselves often rejected their categorization as right-wing, claiming to be a "third force".The role of the state is an example: socialism considers the state to be merely a "tool of the people," sometimes calling it a "necessary evil," which exists to serve the interests of the people and to protect the common good.While certain types of socialism may superficially appear to be similar to fascism, it should be noted that the two ideologies clash violently on many issues