[Steve_Seattle]

Why do conservatives so often fall into the trap of using Nazi analogies to describe the behavior of the left? The left has a long history of its own atrocities - from the French Revolution's Reign of Terror to today's China and North Korea - and that is what we should be comparing the left's behavior to.

The claim that the Nazis were socialists may be true as a technicality, but the fact is that Nazism is popularly considered to be a phenomenon of the right, so why do we describe the left's extremism in terms that tend to associate it with the political right rather than as a phenomenon of the left?

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> Why do conservatives so often fall into the trap of using Nazi analogies to describe the behavior of the left? The left has a long history of its own atrocities - from the French Revolution's Reign of Terror to today's China and North Korea ...

You were describing a general human (destructive) history, except for the recent communist reign (Leftist bend).

But. The Antifa we are talking about today, specifically

"To begin at the beginning: Antifa—real name: Antifaschisitsche Aktion—was born during the street-fights of the 1932 Weimar Republic. It was founded by the Stalinist Communist Party of Germany (KPD), although various Communist “anti-fascist defense” units were associated with the KPD much earlier. ..." (from link here)

[Pelham]

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.

[joshua c]

Chinese communist red guard is probably closer

[Stepan12]

It wasn't the Conservatives that first used the Nazi analogy. It was Peter Berger -- a sociologist -- who spent his youth in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. He noticed the many similarities between the New Left and the Nazis.

Ayn Rand also pointed out that today's Liberals in America are really fascists. Pres. Kennedy amongst them.

[sergeantdave]

“The claim that the Nazis were socialists may be true as a technicality, but the fact is that Nazism is popularly considered to be a phenomenon of the right, so why do we describe the left’s extremism in terms that tend to associate it with the political right rather than as a phenomenon of the left?”

The claim that nazism is a product of the right is a fabrication by European communists. And our leftist communists in the US admire the European communists, so that the lie of nazis equals the right is embraced by our communists.

Communism and nazism are both similar ideologies that fall squarely into line with the Marxist philosophy.