Is fascism far-right?

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That's not how the political spectrum works. For one, plenty of political features don't belong on any sensible left-right spectrum (authoritarianism? electoral laws? judicial system?) which makes it obvious that there is no reason why a far-right government and a far-left government cannot have things in common.

In that case, if the left-right spectrum ignores huge parts of political structures, can it really be called a political spectrum?

The left-right spectrum is just a model. Models make concepts easier to understand but inevitably leave out some important aspects.

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Now you're getting it!

By that reductive definition, however, fascism is the archetypal far-right ideology.

But then the term “far-right” is then mostly useless for actually assessing a political ideology.

There are different ways of being far-right. Fascism and libertarianism could both be considered far-right even though they are polar opposites on many issues. The former is far-right based on cultural/identity issues while the latter is far-right on taxation/spending issues.

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Now you're getting it!

By that reductive definition, however, fascism is the archetypal far-right ideology.

But then the term “far-right” is then mostly useless for actually assessing a political ideology.

There are different ways of being far-right. Fascism and libertarianism could both be considered far-right even though they are polar opposites on many issues. The former is far-right based on cultural/identity issues while the latter is far-right on taxation/spending issues.

In other words,

the term “far-right” is then mostly useless for actually assessing a political ideology.

Yes, using "far-right" alone to describe a political ideology is uninformative. In the context of a specific issue, it could be helpful in comparing two or more people's positions, i.e. abolishing the minimum wage would be further to the right than keeping the status quo on minimum wages.