Subject: Re: Maintaining focus this election cycle
There have been left-wing dictatorships, of a sort. The USSR tried to utilize left-wing economic ideas (e.g. communism and socialism). As opposed to the Nazis where capitalism was still in vogue, and not everything was owned by the state.

You just don't like the label "fascist", and want to try to pin that on the left. Well, you can't. It's an extreme right-wing ideology. Extreme left-wing ideology may involve totalitarianism in some cases, but they aren't fascist. Pretty much by definition. (That doesn't make the authoritarianism any less odious, but it's not fascist.)