I think it was all made up by Fabians to say right-wing is Hitler and everything else is "not-Hitler". I know about the French origins of the spectrum and commies always attack their enemies as right-reactionary but it got more popular at ww2.
Not just the Fabians. All Leftists do it. The Fascists were declared to be "Right Wing" by the Internationalist Communists when Mussolini basically told them that nationalism (which was a progressive and anti-monarchical & anti-colonial movement) was the basis on which further socialist actions needed to take place. All of Fascism and National Socialism is based on Leftist economic policies, particularly Syndicalism and Corporatism.
The internationalist socialists were so fucking stubborn in believing that the Proletariat would just entirely reverse course on enlisting in World War 1, that they were only moments away from the world-wide communist revolution taking place. Mussolini wasn't the only person who called them fucking retarded. So did Lenin, and for the exact same reason. The revolution wasn't just going to magically happen, so Lenin would cause it. Again, he was attacked by Socialists in central Europe for being delusional enough to think that he could have a communist revolution in a country as under-developed as Russia. Marx said that it could only happen post capitalism, so therefore, Marx is God, and Lennin is an idiot. ... and then he destroyed the entire Russian empire within a few years and formed the world's first (and most powerful) Communist state.
Lenin battled with the Socialists, particularly the intellectuals, for years until he basically crushed all dissent within Russia.
Meanwhile, the Social Democratic Party of Germany who was busy condemning both of them, nearly destroyed their entire economy, had to get (what amounted to) a Libertarian to recover the economy, pledged to basically burn down the economy again, and were immediately replaced by National Socialists.
The Socialists keep proving themselves wrong, refuse to listen, and then label everyone who disagrees with them, even the Leftists who disagree with them, Fascist. That's all a Fascist ever was: a Leftist who disagreed with a Leftist Establishment.
In fact, when George Orwell was serving in Spain, fighting for the Democratic Socialists, the Communists tried to have him arrested for being a: Trotskyite Fascist. ... because Stalin declared Trotsky to be a Fascist.
I think it was all made up by Fabians to say right-wing is Hitler and everything else is "not-Hitler". I know about the French origins of the spectrum and commies always attack their enemies as right-reactionary but it got more popular at ww2.
Not just the Fabians. All Leftists do it. The Fascists were declared to be "Right Wing" by the Internationalist Communists when Mussolini basically told them that nationalism (which was a progressive and anti-monarchical & anti-colonial movement) was the basis on which further socialist actions needed to take place. All of Fascism and National Socialism is based on Leftist economic policies, particularly Syndicalism and Corporatism.
The internationalist socialists were so fucking stubborn in believing that the Proletariat would just entirely reverse course on enlisting in World War 1, that they were only moments away from the world-wide communist revolution taking place. Mussolini wasn't the only person who called them fucking retarded. So did Lenin, and for the exact same reason. The revolution wasn't just going to magically happen, so Lenin would cause it. Again, he was attacked by Socialists in central Europe for being delusional enough to think that he could have a communist revolution in a country as under-developed as Russia. Marx said that it could only happen post capitalism, so therefore, Marx is God, and Lennin is an idiot. ... and then he destroyed the entire Russian empire within a few years and formed the world's first (and most powerful) Communist state.
Lenin battled with the Socialists, particularly the intellectuals, for years until he basically crushed all dissent within Russia.
Meanwhile, the Social Democratic Party of Germany who was busy condemning both of them, nearly destroyed their entire economy, had to get (what amounted to) a Libertarian to recover the economy, pledged to basically burn down the economy again, and were immediately replaced by National Socialists.
The Socialists keep proving themselves wrong, refuse to listen, and then label everyone who disagrees with them, even the Leftists who disagree with them, Fascist. That's all a Fascist ever was: a Leftist who disagreed with a Leftist Establishment.
In fact, when George Orwell was serving in Spain, fighting for the Democratic Socialists, the Communists tried to have him arrested for being a: Trotskyite Fascist. ... because Stalin declared Trotsky to be a Fascist.