Cyrylek
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Fascism is socially right wing. It is total government control over social policies. .
In this case, Communism is also right wing. Under Stalin or Mao, government had total control over social policies.
Communism is total left wing economics where the economy is regulated by the government.
But if you pick a particular timeframe - for example, the New Economic Policy of Lenin, in the 1920s - you see overall government control with private enterprise allowed and to some degree encouraged, although always "kept on a short leash". Just like in the Nazi Germany or in the Mussolini's Italy.
Differences are in emphasis and in the phase of development, not in the essence of ideologies.