They don't know what any words mean beyond "this is positive/negative". That's why they use so many terms in a pejorative sense with no understanding of the greater meaning, associations, or connotations such words have and how they might better describe themselves. A really good example of this is Fascist, one which I believe stems from academic socialists in many years gone by that felt threatened by the initial rise of fascism since it was explicitly born from socialists that were fed up with the ineffectual nature of socialism. AKA Fascism isn't an enemy of socialism, it's a competitor to socialism and that's the threat that socialists are worried about.
They don't know what any words mean beyond "this is positive/negative". That's why they use so many terms in a pejorative sense with no understanding of the greater meaning, associations, or connotations such words have and how they might better describe themselves. A really good example of this is Fascist, one which I believe stems from academic socialists in many years gone by that felt threatened by the initial rise of fascism since it was explicitly born from socialists that were fed up with the ineffectual nature of socialism. AKA Fascism isn't an enemy of socialism, it's a competitor to socialism and that's the threat that socialists are worried about.
The 14 features of fascism by umberto eco is a comically broad list of items that apply to most healthy nations.
Leftists label anything that is capable of repelling their subversion as “fascism”.