Fascism was an improvised, basically incoherent political mood whose main animating force was resistance to Communism/Socialism (particularly its atheism). Look at Germany, Italy, Spain, Romania – wherever Fascism prevailed, it did so because the aggressive Socialism which everywhere preceded it had alienated many people and the political center had either been discreditted, evaporated, or co-opted. Fascism is “national socialism” in the sense that the people at the time wanted tremendous state aid, no one really knew what was supposed to happen after the empires/monarchs fell, and therefore the basic impulse throughout almost all Europe was to identify power with the government. And everyone knew the Bolsheviks were coming since they in fact tried several militant “revolutions” in Germany, Poland, Hungary and elsewhere throughout the first decade after WWI – the “red scare,” which was supposedly an invention of “the right.”
Turns out, “the right” is basically a socialist propaganda word for “not left” – just as “capitalism” is just a socialist propaganda word for “not socialism.” That is, “the right” is an invention of Socialists.
