/lit/ - Literature

>>7293909
The Nazis didn't believe in the abolishment of private property with social ownership as its replacement. The 'socialist' aspect of the Nazi ideology was nothing but opportunism. It was just demagoguery taken from the Social-Democratic and Communist mass parties used to appeal to the working classes, of which socialism was popular among at the time and had a long history and was associated with radical popular mass movements. To Hitler, and consequentially the Hitlerite Nazis, all 'Socialism' meant was totalitarian white nationalism.

Just because that Fascism in Italy had a cohesive intellectual movement meant that Fascism, as a movement was ideologically cohesive. Mussolini, for instance, is well known for flip-flopping . Bombacci has already been mentioned.

By cohesion in movements, I meant cohesion in organization and practical activity, with a slight overlap in ideological principles. For instance, it's well known that upper-middle class traditionalists who fancy themselves aristocrats associate themselves with vulgar lower-class Nazi boneheads. In fact, if it wasn't for this obscene connection, I doubt the far-right would be as influential in Europe today, among other reasons. While a lot of the softer 'classical' fascists take offense at being put alongside Nazis, we all know that they collaborate with each other. Another example would be people like Stepan Bandera, members of the far-right who apparently don't make much of a distinction between Hitler or Mussolini when he translated both of their works and allied himself with them.

I agree with you that Fascism has become for many just a slur (especially from the Left), that fascism operated differently depending upon social context, and that classical fascism is different then contemporary, but as term to signify a broad tendency among the far-right, it shouldn't be abandoned.

As an aside, I'm a bit curious how you could honestly think that that Nazism is a "Left" position.

>>7249634
>But Fascist believed in more economic freedom and less government spending than National Socialists

>>6960421
>National control of industries