Yeah, my understanding is that the English/American conception of Left/Right came from a series of debates between Thomas Payne and Edmund Burke on the nature of social change vs preserving traditions. The classical European distinction was more about the amount of power belonging to the State. The Liberals (Left) wanted limited government and individual freedom while the Monarchists (Right) believed in a powerful government ruling and dictating for the greater good.

The Nazis and Fascists considered themselves right-wing because they were totalitarian (biggest of big government). By the same standard, today's "progressive" Left would be extremely far Right while Republicans would be very much to the Left. Obviously this is not compatible with the American Left/Right concept - that's before getting into how flexible and meaningless the terms have become of late. For today's Left to simply label fascism "Right wing" is very misleading without explaining (or knowing) what that meant at the place and time it was being applied.

Perhaps the best way to understand the conflict between Fascism and Communism is to recognize that it's Sectarian. It's just like the centuries of persecution, hatred, killing, etc. between Catholic and Protestant Christians or Shia and Sunni Muslims. Fascism, National Socialism, Bolshevism, etc. are all fairly minor variations on the same foundational belief system (Socialism in this case), and those differences are enough to view each other as heretical.

Glad there are others who completely hate this fake idea of a "political spectrum" like all of society, philosophy and ideology can just fit on a 2 plane line lmao. We really need to push against a political spectrum existing. Would solve A lot of these modern ideology problems people seem to think we have.

The extreme dystopia of the left is full on tyranny, and the extreme dystopia of the right is total anarchy

Probably the first time I've seen the take of "anarchists are right-wing extremists"

I would argue anarchy sits on both ends.

But yeah, American conservatism leads to minimal government. But without it we have the wild west again.

On the left...It should be inserted in between every political class...Because Fascists, communists, and socialists, all employed anarchy as a means to their end.