I’ve explained it to you many times. Unfortunately, you’re just not intelligent enough to understand this content.
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Okay. Where did you learn that?
I'll follow up here because I'm not on as often as many. The reason I ask is because last time you "explained" it to me, you were only able to mention one ultimate source of this idea: Freidrich Hayek. Hayek, as you probably already know, came into prominence around World War II in the classical-liberalist Austrian School, and so his main driving force was to oppose excessive government control, especially the socialists and Communists. Knowing that, it becomes very understandable that he would back a viewpoint that equates them with the hated Nazis.
Any student of any subject has to take a writer's perspective and experiences into account when reading his philosophy on a subject, or else the student will never get a full understanding of, in this case, political science and fascism. It's also important to read more than one author, if you haven't done so.
So Hayek was a classical liberal, which today is pretty close to what we call libertarianism, and so he preached about dividing society along an axis based on liberty vs. authoritarianism. If you are also a libertarian, it makes sense that this scheme would appeal to you as well. I found this one which is similar to yours:
It makes sense, and it's a legitimate way of classifying that aspect of politics, but here's the thing: It's not the spectrum political scientists use when they're talking about the left or right wings. It's a different measuring device.
The reason they're called the left and right wings goes back to the French Revolutionary 'Parliament,' where all of the representatives who favored radical change and equality among classes sat on the literal left wing of the chamber, and those who favored the established aristocracy and a society based on class divides sat on the right. These basic definitions have not changed.
The left wing is based around the promise of equality for all people, in an increasingly classless society in which everyone gets an equal share of society's benefits, without asking if they deserve it. The right wing wants a hierarchy in society; conservatives favor those who work hard in the capitalist ideal, but out at the fringes are the fascists, whose hierarchy is instead based on who is in the party and who is an outsider. The political spectrum that measures the left and right looks like this:
The center is much the same, but the fringes have swapped, because the left-ring spectrum is about comparing the structure of society, not he amount of control the government exerts. That's simply a different measure.
Last thing: If you notice, libertarianism isn't there, and Anarchism and Communism are lumped together, even though they're not really compatible. That's because this is just a one-dimensional graph. For more depth, imagine this was an iron bar, and you could grab it by the Communism and Fascism. Then, like a circus strongman, bend it into a horseshoe shape until they almost touch. That horseshoe sits very nicely in the middle and bottom of a two-dimensional graph that looks like this:
Healthy democracy in the center. Liberals left, conservatives right, and Communism and Fascists (with Nazis) all down at the authoritarian bottom. That is the thing they *do* have in common: they're both heavily, brutally autocratic. What I've noticed about how the term 'fascist' is often used around here, including in your posts, is that you use it to mean everything on the south side of this diamond, and try to call that all the accursed 'left wing'.
They aren't, though. Everyone on the right side of this diamond believes in a class-ordered society in whatever way, and fascists are on the right, with the conservatives. Fascists recruit almost exclusively from conservatives, appealing to their patriotism, tradition, and disgust for whatever dumb shit the liberals just did. That's where Mussolini recruited, that's where Hitler recruited, that's where Orban is recruiting. If any country is to resist a fascist threat, it is the conservatives who must do it.
And, of course, there's the libertarians and anarchists up top with ultimate freedom. Your spectrum is pretty close to this turned sideways, and that's a perfectly legitimate way to examine the government—it's just not the political spectrum, no matter how much Hayek wanted to promote that it was. I don't know if you'll believe me—after all, to you I'm just some dude on the Internet—but I promise you, this is what the political science world means when they talk of the left and right wings, and where fascism sits in them.
