I suppose German NatSocs could be described as ‘right wing’ (although they wouldn’t have described themselves in such terms)
At its core Nazism was a reactionary movement, which was focused on correcting the decadent Jewish liberalism of the Weimar Republic and reinstating a romanticised ideal of German historical folk culture
This isn’t to suggest the Natsoc platform didn’t contain ‘progressive’ socialist elements - agrarian land distributions are an example. It was also staunchly opposed to laissez faire capitalism
But NAZIs never had the same class dialectic fetish as the bolsheviks (bolsheviks sought to introduce government by and for the proletariat, whereas fascists wanted to obliterate class distinction altogether and achieve union via a race consciousness)
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