People keep repeating this mantra, with no evidence to back it up. Let's go back to how the left and right wing were originally defined. During the French Revolution, the "right wing" of the assembly supported the monarchy, the "left wing" wanted to overthrow it. From then on, left and right were defined in terms of radicalism (i.e. overthrowing those with property and power) versus reaction (defending those with property and power). Those definitions have nothing to do with the size of government or the methods used to implement those aims. The aims themselves define the ideology. The power of the state can be used to achieve either left-wing or right-wing aims.
When peasants and labor unions try to seize the property of old landowning families in Spain and in Central America, by any sensible definition they are the leftists in this conflict while their opponents are right-wingers. And guess what? The Soviet Union supported the labor unions and peasants, while the Fascists and Nazis supported the landowners and the military in Spain and in Latin American countries.
Denying that Fascism is at its core a right-wing movement is the same type of intellectual dishonesty as leftists who claim that Stalin wasn't "really" a leftist because he adopted some nationalist trappings and supported Soviet militarism.
Fascism is not “rightwing” by any stretch of the imagination the way it is used in this country.
Let’s try to keep to American definitions then, unless you are trying to confuse the issue?
We all know that “conservative” and “rightwing” mean very different things in other parts of the world than it does here.
Using the American definition, FASCISM is a leftist ideology