I have written a lot before, as have others, on how many people fail to realize that fascists and Nazis were socialists who were vehemently anti-capitalist. This came about because the communists referred to anyone who opposed them as communists. The communists wanted an international revolution, while the fascists and Nazis were nationalistic. The Communists were also in the mold of the French Revolution in which rich and elites were to be killed, while the fascists wanted to co-opt them, but not kill them. The far left in America is basically communistic and internationalist, so mistakenly refers to capitalists as fascists. Here is a discussion of this subject from a European perspective.

The Fascist Shell Game
by Baron Bodissey


In the early 1920s in Italy, the Fascists and the Communists were rival socialist movements. During the same period in Germany, the Communists and the Nazis were also contenders for socialist revolutionary dominance. The difference between the Communists and the Fascists/Nazis was that the former advocated a world revolution — on behalf of the international proletariat and without regard for national boundaries — whereas the latter proposed to institute socialism for the sole benefit of the Italian and German people, respectively.

To the fascists and the Nazis, Communism was an enemy alien, imported from Soviet Russia and directed by Moscow. But from a doctrinal standpoint, national and international socialism were in broad agreement: it was necessary for a “revolutionary vanguard” to seize control of the government to effect a socialist revolution; there should be state ownership of the means of production to benefit the workers; citizens were obliged to work for the common good under the direction of the state; control of speech and the media was required to serve the aims of the revolution and protect the populace from counter-revolutionary propaganda.