It's just an ill-defined insult at this point. George Orwell had interesting things to say.
It's just an ill-defined insult at this point. George Orwell had interesting things to say.
However, Hitler jettisoned the left-wing aspects, cozied up to the capitalists and aristocrats to fund the growth of the party and reshaped the party inspired by Mussolini's fascists. The early socialist manifestos were an embarrassment for the party as it grew and it never attempted any of what that early party sought like disbanding the army, expropriating land from owners etc.
Here is the the early manifesto. The only thing recognisable from what the Nazi party eventually became is the anti-semitism:
If you travel far enough along that line, extreme politics of either flavour will for all practical purposes converge.
If not in ideology, then implementation.
Fascism in Spain didn't come until after fascism took over both Italy and Germany, and only did with the help of both of those countries.