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I'm not sure fascist Italy or Nazi Germany had been marxist societies before.
Look Marx predicted that so called working class will rebel against factory owners and kings and create a state ruled by workers or whatnot.
The WWI give that prediction a final rebuttal. Workers were fighting for their respective rules/king and countries.
Mussolini received telegram from Lenin with congratulations on his accession to power. By the way Mussolini was know Marxist in Italy before creating fascism.
That what I meant.
Furthermore a narrative that places fascist or Nazism in the right of the political spectrum is clearly a false narrative. The same goes for claims that are being made that fascist equal ultra-nationalism. It is simply an erroneous belief. There is no evince for it.
Yes, a nationalism was an ingredient of the fascism as in case of Nazism was racism(or rather an extreme racial hiccup, dividing whit people into races geez) and tribalism (including revival of a neo paganism) but it wasn't its defining characteristic. After all Stalin in a sense was a nationalist to some degree - his slogan socialism in one country, Gandhi, Churchill, American Founding fathers, hell all those anti-colonial movements were nationalistic as well. It doesn't make them fascist.
What define fascist is their collectivism- all encompassing state and nothing outside the state.
Nazism was a National Socialism, do you think they put SOCIALISM there for fun or to mislead people? eh?
the "Reds" had been after all the main enemy,
That is a common misconception too. Shia and Sunni are both Islam their differences viewed by an outsider are not that great, yet they had been fighting each other for centuries. Wars between protestant and Catholics they are both Christian yet that didn't stop them.
The idea that commies and Nazis cannot be both Marxist at their core just because they were enemies or were fighting each other or competed with each other couldn't be further from the truth.
Isn't that obvious?