Eric Striker:
Pigeonholing revolutionary nationalist ideas as Marxist or "not the true right" is a classic reactionary diversion when no rational argument against "Nazis" can be made. Who gives a shit what the true right is.
Figures like George Kennan and the neo-Monarchist writings by Hapsburgs restorationists declared Hitler and Mussolini communists because they did not respect "real right-wing ideas" like hereditary aristocracy or the infallibility of institutions like the Church. The Fascists and Nazis had a moderate opinion on the French Revolution and saw bourgeois values as effeminate and decadent, another supposed faux pas "on the right."
Whether they admit it or not, where they always drew the line of the "true right" vs secret communists masquerading as the right was on their subject's attitude towards race and Jews. Engelbert Dollfuss was to these commentators a "true conservative, a man of the right!" while Mussolini and Hitler were compared to Lenin and Stalin, "cut rate Bolsheviks!" said the wimp James Burnham.
Even if what historian A James Gregor says is true, that fascism and Nationalsocialism are revolutionary socialist movements that replace internationalism and class struggle with nationalism and race solidarity, so what? Were these movements empirically correct in how they identified problems and solutions or not? A discussion the low energy voices of reaction wish to dodge.
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