Is Fascism Right or Left?

Some time ago I posted an article I wrote for the Traditian Order website, Fascism/Naziism and Communism are Blood Brothers. In it I said,

In reality however, both marxism and fascism/naziism are left-wing, revolutionary philosophies, as is explained at length by Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in his seminal work Leftism: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse, and its revised edition, Leftism Revisited: From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot. He explains that both are Hegelian in origin, marxism being Left Hegelian and fascism/naziism being Right Hegelian.

He points out that the two are like a pair of shoemakers in a village, vigourously competing for the custom of the villagers, and that the true conservative, who currently must be a reactionary to restore order and sanity to society, is the fellow who suddenly says that everybody should go barefoot, thus becoming the enemy of both revolutionary parties.

This video is from 'Praeger U', narrated by Dinesh D'Souza. Both 'Praeger U', which is simply a YouTube channel, not in any way a 'U', and D'Souza are neo-conservatives with whom I seldom agree, but this video is one I do agree with. It points out that the 'Philosopher of Fascism' was Giovanni Gentile, of whom Benedetto Croce wrote, he '... holds the honor of having been the most rigorous neo-Hegelian in the entire history of Western philosophy and the dishonor of having been the official philosopher of Fascism in Italy.'