Because in the last couple of years every half-educated conservative talking head has been parroting the idea that Nazis had to be on the left since Socialist was in the party’s name.
None of them have ever bothered to read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or any other serious Nazi history. They just make up whatever sounds good and seems politically useful at the moment.
I think part of it also, is that the leftists tend to call us conservative types “Nazis”. And we know we aren’t Nazis, so we want to push back and say that Nazi is an acronym for National Socialist German Worker’s Party. And then to talk about the Nazi socialist roots.
I have not studied the minutiae of German National Socialism to know if there are fundamental differences between that ideology and Marx’s ideology. If there are some key facts we all need to know, please let us know.
what is the difference between communism/socialism and facism?
Communism/socialist owns the means of production.
Fascism lets you own but they control it. You do what they say.
So Fascism is like a half inch to the right of communism/socialism. Either way there is no freedom.