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Originally Posted by danielf
There's no doubting that Nazi/Fascist ideology captured both left and right wing elements. As is stated on wiki (which I consider a more impartial source than Daniel Hannan).
And plenty other examples on wikipedia.
However, that doesn't alter the fact that they are best known for their right wing policies and therefore seen as right wing. As Hannan puts: Coincidence of policy does not establish consanguinity of doctrine. And that cuts both ways  |
In political commentary and analysis there is no such thing as 'impartial'. And as Hannan also says,
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I just hope that Lefties who have read this far will have a sense of how conservatives feel when fascism is declared to be simply a point further along the spectrum from them. Whenever anyone points to the socialist roots of fascism, there are howls of outrage.
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Your Wikipedia quote points out the elements of both left and right, but then concludes the paragraph by choosing to emphasise an aspect commonly attributed to the right. That is an editorial choice on the part of the Wikipeda editor(s) and, I suggest, not an impartial one.
Anyway, to return to the point ... I still think that, especially in a modern British context, the the idea that you should use the tax system to effect social change is a left-wing preoccupation.