Nazi-Maoism

Nazi-Maoism was a political movement and ideology that emerged in Italy around 1968^[1] with the formation of a group known as "Struggle of the People". This group of students from the Sapienza University of Rome^[2] took heavy inspiration from the writings and theory of Franco Freda^[3] and advocated for a combination of ideas from both the far-left and far-right. According to the Neo-Fascist group "Third Position", Nazi-Maoism had a stance of "neither capitalism nor communism, neither reds nor reactionary".^[4] Nazi-Maoists such as Freda wanted to form a "Fascist dictatorship of the proletariat"^[5] by using the Maoist guerrilla strategy of people's war to overthrow the government and the bourgeoisie.^[6]

Nazi-Maoism is believed to have mostly faded away after the Struggle of the People group dissolved in 1973. However, some forms of Nazi-Maoism continued in other similar groups into the late 1970s, albeit not as active as the Struggle of the People. Some slogans of the so-called "Nazi-Maoism" can be found in numerous groups of the extra-parliamentary right, such as Terza Posizione and, more recently in Forza Nuova, who, despite an accentuated anti-communism and nationalist positions typical of the far-right, they have a strong attention to social problems, as well as a violent anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism.^[7][8][9]