re: #227 halldor

It would probably be more correct to characterize fascism as an ideology that borrows both from the extreme left (class hatred and socialist economics) and from the extreme right (race hatred and ultra-nationalism).

I disagree that fascism incorporates socialist economics. It may look like that on the surface, because fascists want the state to control the means of production, but in practice (e.g., Nazi Germany) the result was that wealth was concentrated in the hands of a very few powerful industrialists, bankers, etc. And that’s the exact opposite of socialism, which strives to erase class distinctions and level the economic playing field.