Darn fine questions and thereby observations, especially as reported through the lens of socialist-leaning Britain.
We know now that the National Socialists have been sold to the post WWII world as "far right," while in fact they were socialists. The name says it -- Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
How were they different from the German Communists of pre-WWII Germany. They saw the German Marxists as a "Jewish" form of socialism, and they wanted an Aryan form of socialism. Both were anti-capitalist in their own words. So it was a matter of which thug was the more thuggish. History tells that answer without question, but obfuscates on the terminology with ONE goal.
To keep the dream of socialism alive. These last decades have proven them successful, but over time history corrects even this. Today's "workers strike" -- farmers are indeed workers, while politicians are not -- scare the political elite. Should ordinary folk dismiss their "leaders," whatever will those "leaders" do? And their mouthpieces, the media?
The mood is heating up. As indeed it should. The EU project shows signs of cracks, now. As it should. The Red-Green coalition in Berlin teeters, as it should. In time those darned people -- the 'demos' -- rise up and rebel. So says history.