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Might as well, since the Nazi movement was just a leftist one infused with racism. Mussolini's fascism was the same, to an even bigger degree, since he continually drew from hard socialist ideas from his early political career. The Nazis were, on the whole, anti-Judeo-Christian, anti-capitalist, and preached egalitarianism for white workers. The party even had an official hard left faction before it was purged out in the early '30s for threatening Hitler's position. But it shouldn't come as a surprise that Nazism drew from the radical left so much when there were many ex-commies and other creeps who entered the party. Hitler even remarked once that some of the best, most loyal party members came out of the German communist movement after WWI and in the '20s. The radical left is somewhat like a bacteria or natural forces of decay. They serve their purpose in ripping apart institutions and traditions whose time has come to die, but if they get out of control they will quickly destroy everything and spawn only the most grotesque totalitarianisms and sick idealogies the world has ever seen. We aren't talking about liberals here, we're talking about radicals--communists, fascists, anarchists. Those three alone are responsible for police states, impoverished economies, massive genocide, and modern terrorist tactics.