Where the confusion comes into this is that Socialism is split into a left and a right wing. The right is Facism(Bolshevik), the left Communism(Menshoviks). That is how Hitler came from the right wing. Communism is total ownership of everything. Socialism is total control of everything. People, property, and production.
Genocide is needed to maintain the control, the victim is irrelevant, it is usually the Facist if the Communist are in power, and vice versa. Hitler used race because it was already in the Nationalist Party Platform, but he also targeted the Communist in Russia and Eastern Europe. Class has also be used. Any division can be utilized, as the ends justify the means.
Grrrrr...make that Communism is total ownership of everything. Socialsim Facism is total control of everything. People, property, and production.
Where the confusion comes into this is that Socialism is split into a left and a right wing. The right is Facism(Bolshevik), the left Communism(Menshoviks). That is how Hitler came from the right wing. Do you have any references to the use of the terms right and left from that time period? I always thought in these inter party battles, the winners called the losers 'counter revolutionaries." I never saw anything that used the terms right vs left.