Fascism is social engineering. It is making the trains run on time, and eugenics, and government control of the economy. As I have said from time to time perhaps the most brilliant piece of propaganda the Left ever came up with was positioning Fascism on the right. Yes, Hitler fought the Soviets, and Mussolini fought the very Communists among whose ranks he once was. But they differed in the specifics, not in their embrace of totalitarianism, not in their belief that a ruling elite could remake the world.
If we return to the original French Revolutionary Assembly, who do we find on the right? Monarchists. If the National Socialist German Worker’s Party–which by the way got most of its support from the working class–had truly been a creature of the right, they would have been seeking to reimpose the monarchy, and return things to the way they used to be. That was the furthest thing from Hitler’s mind, unless we consider that his actual goal was returning to an imagined glorious, pre-Christian past that clearly never existed as he imagined it.
There is no functional difference between a bright shiny future, or a bright shiny past, if both exist in radical difference from the actual present.