| − | As noted above, Fascism has largely been falsely identified as being part of the far-right since World War II.<ref>John Weiss, ''The Fascist Tradition: Radical right-wing extremism in modern Europe'' Harper & Row, 1967. See also ''OED'' :An authoritarian and nationalistic system of government and social organization which emerged after the end of the First World War in 1918, and became a prominent force in European politics during the 1920s and 1930s, most notably in Italy and Germany; (later also) an extreme right-wing political ideology based on the principles underlying this system. </ref> | + | As noted above, Fascism has largely been falsely identified as being part of the far-right since World War II.<ref>John Weiss, ''The Fascist Tradition: Radical right-wing extremism in modern Europe'' Harper & Row, 1967. </ref> See also ''OED'' :An authoritarian and nationalistic system of government and social organization which emerged after the end of the First World War in 1918, and became a prominent force in European politics during the 1920s and 1930s, most notably in Italy and Germany; (later also) an extreme right-wing political ideology based on the principles underlying this system. |
| − | There is also a Communist party directive dated back to as early as 1943 that demands that any Communists who encounter any opposition towards their plans are to call their opponents, among other things, fascists and nazis.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIylzZCv_ww</ref> This ultimately came to a head around 2003 when a literature professor by the name of Dr. Lawrence Britt, under the claims that he had studied Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Muhammad Suharto, and Augusto Pinochet (even though only Hitler and Mussolini were actual adherents to fascism), made 14 points about Socialism in the various countries, claiming that the fourteen points were the following:
| + | There is also a Communist party directive dated back to as early as 1943 that demands that any Communists who encounter any opposition towards their plans are to call their opponents, among other things, fascists and nazis.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIylzZCv_ww</ref> This ultimately came to a head around 2003 when a literature professor by the name of Dr. Lawrence Britt, under the claims that he had studied Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Muhammad Suharto, and Augusto Pinochet (even though only Hitler and Mussolini were actual adherents to fascism), made 14 points about Socialism in the various countries, claiming that the fourteen points were the following: |