[Skywalk]

It actually goes back to the fact that fascists and communists used to be rivals in the recruiting war for the totalitarian-minded intellectuals of Europe. Indeed, they commonly traded members back and forth as happens with faddish elite beliefs. Mussolini was a socialist. So was Hitler, but being the other "side of the same coin" led to great hatred between Communists and Fascists. One side's outlook was "international" and the other was more inward and focused on the "nation" or "Volk."

So somewhere along the line, despite the pact between Stalin and Hitler, the communists viewed the fascists as their arch-enemy, and as such would soon label ANYONE who opposed them as "Fascist."

So what you see today, despite being terribly inaccurate, is merely a continuation of that ideological European war.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I was aware of the rivalry between the communists and fascist-hence during WWII the Russians fighting the Germans. As we have seen, both systems fail humankind. I just find it interesting that many of the "educated elite" continually mislabel those such as myself who do not believe in fascism or socialism with their slurs. They seem to have hijacked history to use to their advantage because they cannot come up with anything else.