This video traces what it calls the dark origins of communism and argues that the rise of global tyranny cannot be understood without them. It challenges the familiar left-right map of politics, contending that Nazism and Fascism, usually placed on the far right, share roots and policies with communism and with modern socialist movements. The programme sets out to unravel that political dichotomy, asking how these systems emerged, what they actually believed, and why their similarities are so often overlooked.
The discussion matters because the labels we use shape how we judge both history and the present. If movements that look like opposites turn out to share centralised power, state control of the economy, suppression of dissent and a claim to remake society, then the usual story about right versus left needs rethinking. Viewers are invited to test that claim against the record of the twentieth century and to consider what it means for political movements today that promise sweeping change in the name of equality or national renewal.
Nazism and Fascism are often framed as far-right ideologies. Yet, both systems are rooted in communism, and their policies are strikingly close to modern-day socialist movements. How did these systems emerge? And what are their policies? We unravel the misunderstandings around the political dichotomies of a “right” and a “left.”