"A member of the far right in France?
...so he's a just a big government socialist as opposed to a Leninist Communist? "
No, he is a National Socialist, also known as NAZI.
I think it is important to use accurate terminology...
National Socialist, Soviet Socialist, Fascist... all the same things really...
Stalin was a master propagandist, it was from Stalin where people in the West get the false idea the NAZIs were Fascists.