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Equating Fascism and Nazism with the Right is a LIE:

  • tatobin4
  • Aug 18
  • 5 min read

Updated: Sep 26


The Origins of a False Association


Equating Fascism and Nazism with the right is a lie. So, how did this false association come about? A key turning point was World War II and the early Cold War period. After the war, the world was left to make sense of the horrors of Nazism and Fascism. Because those regimes were bitter enemies of Marxism, Soviet propagandists quickly began portraying Fascism and Nazism as “the far-right,” in order to position communism as their opposite.


This framing was politically useful: if communism could claim to be the left-wing “antifascist” force, then all resistance to it—especially Western conservatism—could be painted as somehow adjacent to fascism.


This idea seeped into Western academia and media, particularly during the postwar decades when Marxist and socialist intellectuals were influential in universities. Many historians began adopting a simplistic “spectrum” of politics: communism on the far left, liberal democracy in the center, and fascism on the far right.


But this linear spectrum concealed more than it revealed. It lumped conservatism together with authoritarian ultranationalism simply because both opposed Marxism—even though they opposed it for completely different reasons. Communists opposed fascists because they were nationalists; conservatives opposed fascists because they were tyrants.


Adding to the confusion, both fascist and communist movements used similar revolutionary tactics: mass rallies, charismatic leadership, centralized control, and the suppression of dissent. Because fascists were not internationalists like communists, they were depicted as “right-wing” nationalists. Over time, this labeling hardened into common usage—even though it was rooted more in Cold War propaganda and academic shorthand than in the actual ideological foundations of conservatism.


The Modern Misuse


Today, calling conservatives “fascists” or “Nazis” has become a rhetorical weapon rather than a historical judgment. It is often used by opponents on the left to stigmatize the right by associating it with history’s most infamous evils. Yet this tactic ignores the reality that conservatism stands for restraints on government power, individual rights, and the rule of law—the very things that fascists destroyed.


In fact, if anything, conservatism provides the strongest defense against a slide into authoritarian collectivism of any kind, whether draped in the banner of class struggle (communism) or racial destiny (Nazism). When examined honestly, it is clear that Fascism and Nazism did not emerge from the soil of conservative thought but from the soil of radical, statist ideologies. They sought to remake society through coercion, violence, and the exaltation of the collective over the individual.


Conservatism, on the other hand, insists that the state must remain the servant of the people, not their master. That difference is not cosmetic—it is fundamental. And it is why equating conservatism with Fascism is both historically false and politically destructive.


The Dangers of False Labels


When you vilify people by labeling them as Nazis, Fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, or even calling them “Hitler”—especially when those labels are false—you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, people are more likely to feel justified in harming or even killing them, because they no longer see them as fully human.


This is what the left is doing to people on the right, and it is the very same tactic Hitler and the Nazis used against the Jews.


The Ideological Roots of Fascism and Nazism


The ideologies of Fascism (and its associated ideology, Nazism) have no logical connection to Conservative principles such as smaller, decentralized government, personal rights, and individual liberty. Like Socialism and Marxism, Fascism and Nazism are statist and collectivist at their core, pursuing a centralized, authoritarian government with total control over society and the economy.

This is the exact opposite of Conservative ideology—but it aligns closely with the ideology of the Democratic Party.


Wikipedia describes Fascism as:

“characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.”

None of these traits reflect Conservative ideals or the Republican Party platform.

Fascism emerged in the early 20th century as a fusion of Socialism, Marxism, and Progressivism. Its de facto founder, Giovanni Gentile, drew heavily from Marx, Hegel, Fichte, and other leftist theorists. Gentile later became a ranking member of the Italian Fascists and even ghost-wrote part of Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism.


This philosophy has long appealed to the elitist Democratic Party. Why? Because Liberal Progressivism is the ideological offspring of Fascism and Socialism. At its heart, Progressivism rejects God, religion, and individualism, instead embracing government power and regulation as the source of morality and progress (think Prohibition).


Historical and Modern Leftist Ties to Fascism


Prominent Democrats and leftists—including FDR, Neville Chamberlain, Joe Kennedy Sr., W.E.B. Du Bois, and Oswald Mosley—openly praised Hitler, Mussolini, and Fascism in the years leading up to WWII, with some continuing even afterward.👉 https://dailycaller.com/2016/12/13/fdr-praised-mussolini-and-loved-fascism/


The admiration was mutual. Hitler and the Nazis openly drew inspiration from American Leftist policies, especially segregation and Jim Crow laws, which the Third Reich used as a model for their own racial laws.👉 https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow


And today, Nazis still express their support for Democrats:


What Conservatism Actually Defends


In contrast, the political Right supports small government, property rights, individualism, liberty, free enterprise, personal responsibility, meritocracy, free will, and self-determination. Fascism rejects all of these because it is fundamentally socialist.

Remember: “Nazi” literally means National Socialism. The Nazis arose from the National German Workers’ Party (later renamed by Adolph Hitler himself to 'The National Socialist German Workers’ Party' or NSDAP). Adolf Hitler repeatedly declared that the Nazis were socialist:

“"Socialism is the science of dealing with the common weal [health or well-being]. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists. Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality and, unlike Marxism, it is patriotic. We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our Socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the State on the basis of race solidarity. To us, State and race are one." - Adolph Hitler to George Sylvester Viereck for Liberty magazine (July 9th 1932).

And still today, Democrats openly support Nazi-linked groups such as Hamas, radical Islamist movements, and even Ukraine’s Nazi-influenced elements:

Bottom Line


In reality, both Fascism and Communism belong to the same family of statist, collectivist ideologies, where the state dominates society and crushes dissent. Conservatism, by contrast, is the tradition that resists such concentration of power. Conservatives defend the rights of individuals against the state, insist on accountability of government to the people, and believe that freedom—not coercion—is the foundation of a just society.


To call conservatives “fascists” or “Nazis” is to invert reality: it is precisely conservative values that stand as the strongest safeguard against the very tyranny those regimes represented.

Fascism and Nazism are not right-wing—they are left-wing. They are rooted in Socialism and Progressivism, not in Conservatism or the political Right.

 
 
 

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