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Yes you are confused. Fascism is not "fundamentally a left wing ideology" because they were friendly with the Nazis. Fascism was right authoritarianism, NSDAP (Nazis) was right authoritariansim. The Nazis were not a left party. You are completely confused by the "socialist" part in the name. Which they intentionally used to confuse. The term "socialist" was used for propaganda, to attract workers, but their policies were not socialist but were right-wing nationalist, authoritarian, racist. They used "socialist" to mean state control of certain aspects, but not collective ownership, and they opposed Marxist socialism.
80 year old propaganda still confusing you. What kind of books you reading? I'm curious.
Look at you parroting lemmy.ml arguments like its your fucking gospel.
Fascism's core ideology of total state control of the economy via corporatism, nationalising industries for the "collective good," and smashing individual property rights when they don't serve the masses' uprising against elitist straight out of leftwing playbooks, just wrapped in a different flag to confuse useful idiots like you.
Mussolini was a proud socialist before he evolved it; Hitler railed against "Jewish capitalism" while building welfare states for the volk.
Your "right-wing" label? That's the real propaganda, ignoring how both Nazis and fascists gutted markets and unions in pursuit of that egalitarian utopia you secretly love. Read some actual history beyond tankie meme chart and youtube videos titled top 10 reasons to be a communist.
As for books I'm sure u know that both Mussolini and hitler wrote about the development of their ideology and they are both dripping with socialist influences.
The famously "egalitarian" Nazis who thought provokingly also railed against the "Jewish capitalism" in their "egalitarian" pursuit of racial purity and a welfare state for the superior "egalitarian" Aryan volk?
Here is Mussolinis doctrine: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14058/14058-h/14058-h.htm
Straight out of the pigs mouth. Of course, it's still propaganda, he could have said it is socialism, and it still wouldn't be socialism if it isn't socialism. The same way you can call a pig a horse, or the Nazis egalitarian.
Whats a tankie btw?
Originally, these were western supporters of soviet/russian imperialism. Soviet imperialism was very much a seamless continuation of tsarist imperialism.
After WW2, Soviet Russia had military control of much of Europe. They installed authoritarian governments that were under their control, but of course there were occasional reform movements, notably in Hungary 1956 or Czechoslovakia 1968. Russia crushed these "revolts" with overwhelming military force. They sent in the tanks, and so those who favored military aggression were called "tankies".
Note: These were regular wars between countries by any definition.