Reddit reviews The Fascism Reader (Routledge Readers in History)

Do you even read your article? Despite the bias, the author of that article agrees that Fascism is right-wing. Despite the fact that it's a blog post about a blog post, and not academic sourcing, they even agree with me.

"The often very interesting blogger Pseudoerasmus has a long post about whether fascism can be considered left-wing (picking up from another post by John Holbo at Crooked Timber). Pseudoerasmus focuses on the question of Italy’s place on the left–right spectrum, though when convenient he cites examples from Nazi history. He is very skeptical, arguing that in “historical terms” fascism should be seen as right-wing. “I think the issue is kind of obvious,” he writes, “but it’s always good to have an excuse to pontificate on matters historical.” I agree, so let me offer some counter pontification."

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"So, yes, sure fascism was seen as being to the “right” of Communism, because it was."

And I have provided sources, you just refuse to read them it seems. And I'll provide two ACADEMICS, not blog posts, published ACADEMICS who agree that fascism is right-wing. Fascism by Roger Griffin (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/fascism-9780192892492?cc=us&lang=en&#, it's for purchase like 90% of all academic papers.) and The Fascism Reader by Artistotle A. Kallis (https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Reader-Routledge-Readers-History/dp/0415243599). Both agree that fascism is right wing. There's two sources, enjoy. And both are a damn shot better than a conservative blogger and a random anonymous blogger named "Pseudoerasmus".


You can claim that Nazis used high-minded, socialist ideals to try to get power, and they did I won't deny that, but when they got power they did not at all go through with those policies. That's why Otto Strasser and others left the Nazi party! They felt Hitler betrayed their ideals of socialism in favor of capitalism.

Things Nazis did once in power:

• Removed women's right to vote, along with controlling aspects of their lives going as far as to outlaw allowing them to dye their hair.
  
  
• Outlawed all Unions in favor of a state "union" that was really a means to controlling and exploiting industry to ramp up their war machine again, not shared among the populace like socialism.
  
• Outlawed abortion.
  
  
• Women and Jews in the workplace were forced to give up their jobs to men, and forbidden from holding any position that required decision-making.
  
  All very "left-wing" policies, right? Hell, their entire economic policy boiled down to literally 4 things:
  
  Full employment - the idea that everyone should have a job. By 1939, there was virtually no unemployment in Germany.
  
  Beauty of Work - the Nazis set up the SdA (Beauty of Work) to help Germans see that work was good, and that everyone who could work should. In fact - because the Nazis had abolished the trade unions, banned strikes, and given more power to the industrialists - real wages fell and hours were longer under Hitler.
  
  Re-armament begun in 1935 - the idea of 'guns before butter'.
  
  Autarky - there was an unsuccessful attempt at making Germany self-sufficient.
  
  What left-wing policy gives more power to industrialists? Isolationism in the form of "self-sufficency" has never been a really left-wing ideal, but it was for Nazi Germany. And after 1925, Hitler refused to let the platform be changed because he declared it "inviolable". Nazis were never committed to socialism or left-wing ideals, they only used them as a means to an end without implementing them. Wealth was not distributed among the masses, but used to fuel a war machine. That is not socialism.

No, sadly you remember wrong. Fascism is far-right on the political spectrum. Here's some material if you want to read up:

https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Fascism-Roger-Griffin/dp/0312071329

https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Reader-Routledge-Readers-History/dp/0415243599