[TradicalRC]

The Nazis were socialists, not Fascists. They've been labeled fascist by leftists who wanted the idea of centralized government to remain untarnished. Somehow we're supposed to believe that there ore pro-big-government right wingers although this doesn't ring true in America, it played well in Europe and with the American left. Their slavish devotion to the French Revolution made them very anti-American and being the free capitalist nation that we were they saw America as a land of evil right wing communist-hating bougeoisie.

Ah, the good old days.

[swilhelm73]

Well, actually, Fascism is a leftwing political ideology.

Fascism originates from Mussolini who started his fascist party after a split with the Italian socialists over the question of whether one can be a nationalist and a socialist.

Fascism is notable by corporatist (aka Third Way) socialism, subjugation of the rights of the individual for the theoritical common good, the importance of a nominal national will over elections and republican controls, and a government of men and not of laws.

It isn't much of a stretch to claim the American Democrat party, and most of the political parties in Europe, are treading ever closer to the fascist thought and theory. Communism failed, badly, fascism, however, is a bit more of a successful governing model.