I think this was only true when left of center meant communist.
But I have asked myself too why is it so that if every ideology has moderate and radical versions, why do Nazism and Fascism only have radical versions? And what I found it does have a moderate version, a kind of combo of left-populism and right-populism represented by Orbán and perhaps Five Stars.
That's a common interpretation among anglo intellectuals, but what many of them (as well as many Europeans included) have difficult to grasp nazism, fascism and communism common roots into Jacobins ones. As Fabrice Bouthillon and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle sixty years before him realized It's totalitarian Jacobinism wich provided ideological and methodical tools to build the totalitarian state, doesn't matter if black, brown or red. Trying to understand why Hitler became antisemite is surely interesting and important, but if you focus more on dictators personal life instead of inquiring philosophical roots of totalitarianism you risk to make a lame-duck analysis.
"certain militaristic element" lol. From street violence to war, it was entirely about aggressivity.
I think you might be thinking of Mosley, who was a strange bird in the fascist camp, already a pacifist during WW1 (one could also say: coward, a bit), and did avoid street fights (or at least there is one big case of having done that). Then after WW2 he basically went on to become an EU advocate. He was really different than the rest and I am not even sure why he used that label.
I think this was only true when left of center meant communist.
But I have asked myself too why is it so that if every ideology has moderate and radical versions, why do Nazism and Fascism only have radical versions? And what I found it does have a moderate version, a kind of combo of left-populism and right-populism represented by Orbán and perhaps Five Stars.
"Liberal Democrats didn't provide a revolution"
Not exactly. American Revolution and 1848 Revolutions were based on liberal democrat principles.
That's a common interpretation among anglo intellectuals, but what many of them (as well as many Europeans included) have difficult to grasp nazism, fascism and communism common roots into Jacobins ones. As Fabrice Bouthillon and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle sixty years before him realized It's totalitarian Jacobinism wich provided ideological and methodical tools to build the totalitarian state, doesn't matter if black, brown or red. Trying to understand why Hitler became antisemite is surely interesting and important, but if you focus more on dictators personal life instead of inquiring philosophical roots of totalitarianism you risk to make a lame-duck analysis.
"certain militaristic element" lol. From street violence to war, it was entirely about aggressivity.
I think you might be thinking of Mosley, who was a strange bird in the fascist camp, already a pacifist during WW1 (one could also say: coward, a bit), and did avoid street fights (or at least there is one big case of having done that). Then after WW2 he basically went on to become an EU advocate. He was really different than the rest and I am not even sure why he used that label.