THE RADICAL RIGHT: NAZISM AND FASCISM
In contemporary circumstances, however, the forces which are
generally seen as furthest to the right are not those of monarchism
but those of fascism or Nazism. In many ways such movements are
the furthest removed from the democratic centre since they deny the
legitimacy of the idea of democracy and of universal human rights,
whilst the extreme left — in the shape of communists — have generally
claimed the symbolism of democracy and frequently claimed to be
more democratic than liberal democrats.
Hitler's ‘National Socialist’ Party was not without a populist
strand in that the ‘Fuhrer’ (leader) was seen as representing the true