I've read tons of history, but I don't restrict my reading to leftwing propaganda.
Yes he was a communist, turd. commies often called them selves socialist.
Again, you define "right wing" by claiming it's "right wing." There's nothing intrinsically "right wing" about authoritarianism or nationalism. That's simply a leftwing fetish to define everything people don't like these days as "right wing."
Wrong.
Fascism was invented by the ancient Romans, meaning unity between members of the aristocracy, the military, and the priesthood, which later became replaced by corporate owners.
The word comes from the fascia, a wooden axe handle held by the Lictors, as a badge of office.
Every year there was a ceremony where these axe handles would be tied together in a bundle, to create a visual reminder of the added strength of unity.
None of the fascist leaders in modern history were progressive, liberal, represented the poor, were socialist or communist, etc.
All fascists have always been right wing leaders picked by the wealthy elite, and used the implication of racial superiority of the wealthy elite.
Hitler was never elected, but picked by Hindenburg, to do what the wealthy German elite told him to do.
{...
On January 30, 1933, President
Paul von Hindenburg names
Adolf Hitler, leader or
führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or
Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany.
The year 1932 had seen Hitler’s meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people’s frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still-festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty. A charismatic speaker, Hitler channeled popular discontent with the post-war Weimar government into support for his fledgling Nazi party. In an election held in July 1932, the Nazis won 230 governmental seats; together with the Communists, the next largest party, they made up over half of the Reichstag.
...}
Mussolini was picked by the Italian king.
{...
Victor Emmanuel III, the king of Italy, invited Benito Mussolini to become Prime Minister on this day in 1922, ushering in the era of Fascist rule in Italy.
History has largely perceived the decision as a moment of weakness on the part of the king, a man of small physical stature who had never been particularly comfortable in his role.
Yet at the time, with violent clashes between socialist supporters and Mussolini’s
Blackshirts occurring almost daily with both sides bent on revolution, Victor Emmanuel feared that Italy was on the brink of civil war.
...}
Francisco Franco was a monarchist.
{...
Born in
Ferrol,
Galicia, into an upper-class military family, Franco served in the
Spanish Army as a
cadet in the
Toledo Infantry Academy from 1907 to 1910. While serving in
Morocco, he rose through the ranks to become a
brigadier general in 1926 at age 33, which made him the
youngest general in all of Europe. Two years later, Franco became the director of the
General Military Academy in Zaragoza. As a
conservative and
monarchist, Franco regretted the abolition of the
monarchy and the establishment of the
Second Republic in 1931, and was devastated by the closing of his academy; nevertheless, he continued his service in the
Republican Army.
[2] His career was boosted after the
right-wing CEDA and
PRR won the
1933 election, empowering him to lead the suppression of the
1934 uprising in Asturias. Franco was briefly elevated to
Chief of Army Staff before the
1936 election moved the
leftist Popular Front into power, relegating him to the
Canary Islands. Initially reluctant, he joined
the July 1936 military coup, which, after failing to take Spain, sparked the
Spanish Civil War.
During the war, he commanded Spain's
African colonial army and later, following the deaths of much of the rebel leadership, became
his faction's only leader, being appointed
Generalissimo and
head of state in 1936. He
consolidated all nationalist parties into the
FET y de las JONS (creating a
one-party state). Three years later the Nationalists declared victory, which extended Franco's dictatorship over Spain through a period of
repression of political opponents. His dictatorship's use of
forced labor,
concentration camps and
executions led to between 30,000 and 50,000 deaths.
[9] Combined with wartime killings, this brings the death toll of the
White Terror to between 100,000 and 200,000.
[11]
...}
You sort of have this backwards.
Authoritarianism is always for the financial benefit of a wealthy elite.
So that then has to always be a capitalist, for profit, motive.
Communism and socialism have a cooperative and sharing motive, so then can NEVER be authoritarian.
If a government is authoritarian, then it can not possibly be socialist or communist, no matter what anyone says about it.
www.msnbc.com
www.spectator.co.uk
nationalpost.com
www.nytimes.com
en.m.wikipedia.org
courses.lumenlearning.com
