There was no drift because fascism is essentially Leftist. The only reason people see communists on the extreme Left and fascists on the extreme Right is because Stalin and Hitler were enemies in WW-II. They forget that before Hitler invaded Russia, they had been allies. If you examine what was said by Mussolini http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=4F727F1C-01F2-44AA-93B1-ECCB922B38C3 , you will see that both are collectivist ideologies driven only by a different fantasy, fascism by nationalism based on racism, and communism by the nobility of the proletariat.

Mr. Alexander betrays typical Yankee ignorance of the American South by claiming it to be more anti-Semitic than the rest of the country. For starters, the Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, was a Jew. There is at least one book on Southern Jews who defended the Confederacy, Robert N. Rosen’s “The Jewish Confederates.” He would do well to watch the excellent documentary “Delta Jews.”

In all liklihood the South became less tolerant of Jews in the late nineteenth century due to liberalism and socialism and disproporationate Jewish support of both. Liberals erroneously thought that the social maladies of the black underclass were the result of racial prejucide rather than its cause, and socialists saw blacks as a revolutionary class that could be used to destroy bourgeois society. One doubts that he understands that the so-called freedom rider campaigns of the early 1960s were the first campaign of the New Left, many of whom were secular Jews who had been raised in Stalinist families. The fact that the extreme left has suborned the so-called civil rights movement and perverted it into an ethnic special interest movement to promote socialism tends to vindicate this view.

I think Friedrich Nietzsche well summed up anti-Semitism in his book Beyond Good and Evil (back in the 19th Century).

“I have not met a German yet who was well disposed toward the Jews; and however unconditionally all the cautious and politically-minded repudiated real anti-Semitism, even this caution and policy are not directed against the species of this feeling itself but only against its dangerous immoderation, especially against the insipid and shameful expression of this immoderate feeling – about this, one should not deceive oneself.” [251]

“That the Jews, if they wanted it – or if they were forced into it, which seems to be what the anti-Semites want – could even now have preponderance, indeed quite literally mastery over Europe, that is certain; that they are not working and planning for that is equally certain.” [251]

“To that end it might be useful and fair to expel the anti-Semitic screamers from the country.” [251]

The problem is few would be left, especially in Europe.

Joseph BH McMillan http://www.freedomvrights.com