[iontheball]

But Nazism and Communism are both leftist just that Nazism is slightly to the right of Communism.
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The great myth is that Nazism is right, but, as you say, the starting point is everything. When you place both of them on a left right political spectrum, both are left side ideologies. The key is that both eschew individual thought and freedom.

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That's a present day American point of view. Things looked different in Europe 80 years ago.

The old European right wasn't in love with freedom and individualism, any more than the old European left was pacifist and omni-tolerant of all manner of ethnicities and lifestyles.

Communists and Nazis/Fascists were fighting in the streets. Millions joined one side or the other, and that's what defined right and left for that generation.

[Bonemaker]

“The great myth is that Nazism is right, but, as you say, the starting point is everything. “

Problem is the NSDAP was a bulwark aginst communism.Who do we have a problem with today...NSDAP or communists/democrats?