Letter to the editor: False portrayals of fascism

In response to Frank Zalakar’s letter “Knowing right from left” (March 4, TribLIVE) about my Jan. 30 letter “Capitalism is on the right side”: The issue of fascism as a right-wing political ideology is countered in the recently published best-selling book by Dinesh D’Souza, “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left.” This book explains how the left-wing media falsely portray fascism on the right of the political spectrum. In fact fascism, communism and socialism are all on the left side of the political spectrum. For example, Nazi is derived from the German name of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The Nazi party was fascist and socialist.

I highly recommend D’Souza’s book as an antidote for Zalakar and others who have had their minds poisoned by left-wing propaganda.

And, by the way, the left-wing communist ideology the U.S. fought against in Korea, Vietnam and the Soviet Union (the Cold War) has become entrenched in our own government-media-academia complex because of the success of left-wing propagandists who, among other things, make people like Zalakar falsely believe fascism is on the right side of the political spectrum.

Dr. Joel I. Last

Greensburg