It is. Fascism is one flavor of socialism, and only in a totally abstract sense is any flavor of socialism right or left of another.
ALL flavors of Socialism are dedicated to the minimization of Man and the glorification of the State. And ALL of them are dedicated to the removal of traditional religion from the life of Man; it must be removed to make room for the religion of the State.
NO flavor of socialism recognizes the inherent autonomy of the individual, neither does socialism make room for individual talents, abilities, tendencies, like, dislikes, enthusiasms, goals, or foibles, or allow for how these take us in different directions, and to different life situations.
Socialism is unnatural, forced, synthetic and artificial, and disallows the possibility of living an authentic life.
It is a death sentence to the spirit of man, no matter what flavor it is served up as.
Facists are actually socialist that have realized that socialism does not work. Thus they have decided to let capitolism exist and take a large percentage of the profits to build a quasi socialistic state.
China is the perfect example of that today. They are the worlds second largest economic power. Their leaders are communists but realize that communism will self destruct. Thus they have become pragmatic Facists. Unfortunatly it works.
Facism is a far greater threat than communism.