Socialists aren’t ‘right wing’
“The Soviets were Nationalist too. So were the Chicoms.”
QFT. That would mean they were fascist. But the American left, which has defined the terms of the debate, can’t go there.
Nor can you distinguish the fascists from the soviet and chinese socialist because somehow, the soviets and chinese were “internationalist.” Because the fascists were also internationalist in the sense that they started WWII to spread their power over the Eurasian land mass. As opposed to the Soviets occupying all of Eastern Europe and the Chinese, Tibet and Manchuria.
Some of the Soviet and Chinese rhetoric talked about the “internationalist” masses. But in practice, they were all thuggish socialist dictatorships.