Yeah there isn’t a whole lot of difference. The little guy still gets screwed no matter if the state seizes property and kills millions or controls it to its liking as we are seeing in this country.
The mobs still hung Mussolini despite making the trains run on time and still fled ‘paradise’ when the walls came down.
Socialists and communists just don’t understand economic markets. I will grant you the nationalistic/international movement difference, and Goldberg makes that distinction as well.
Once again, take a look at proxy wars between Fascists and Communists such as a Spanish Civil War and various juntas in Latin America. The Fascists and Nazis backed Franco in Spain and the military juntas in Latin America against peasant uprisings and labor unions. The Soviet Union backed the peasants and the labor unions.
By any definition of left and right wing, political movements who back the ruling classes and property owners are the right, those who want to overthrow them are on the left. Therefore, industrialists and aristocrats in Europe supported fascism as a movement that would defend their interests against communism and against the labor unions.
Saying that they're ideologically the same because they both killed and oppressed people misses the point. They killed and oppressed different classes of people for different and often opposite reasons. A terrorist who blows up a building in the name of Allah and Islam may use the same methods as an atheistic anarchist, but it would be asinine to suggest that they're ideologically the same because they both use bombs and kill people.