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In school, I was taught that fascism was not in fact right wing, but compared to American Government, it was very much left wing. Our history class taught that the Nazi party of Germany had a meeting with the Communist Party of Germany to discuss a number of things starting on what slogans would be and what category they would say they were. Fascists were very much left wing, but they looked like right wing extremists compared to the communists, so they decided to call the communists left wing and call the fascists right wing to avoid confusion.
Fascism is left wing because you cannot own a business or large home if you don't toe the line that the ruling party draws.. If you don't toe the line, they take your business and give it to someone who will. It is far right of either communism or socialism in that it allows private property at all. In socialism the government owns all the business and makes sure that everyone is paid equally, and in communism the gov't owns everything and makes sure that everyone has everything they need.
So fascism is far right of communism but still pretty far left of American conservatism. It's somewhere in the middle.
Fascism - a one party dictatorship - I think both the left and right want this, but for their party and not the other.
forcible suppression of the opposition - Hmm, IRS, EPA, OSHA, scandals, but Nixon did the same as did LBJ. Still not left or right, but both parties seem to like this idea. How many on this site want to end Limbaugh's, Hannity, Madow or Shultz's career of spouting the party line on their shows because they have a different political philosophy.
Private economic enterprise under central governments control - this one is all left. Yep, definitely left.
Belligerent nationalism, racism and militarism. Probably both parties again as each party views the other party as being unpatriotic, racism, the divide the people up into groups, by race, sex, religion and more to divide and conquer in the search for votes, to make one group hate another group if that brings in more votes, yep, both parties again. Militarism - it is the same song and dance, a war under my parties president is good and a war under the other parties president is bad.
I suppose fascism is neither left or right, Republican or Democrat, but I think both parties dream of being in power and in control like any fascist would.