Actual historians of Fascism and Nazism have pointed out that without toleration and often active help of big business and "conservative" elites, Nazism in particular would have ended up being a footnote in history.
Paxton stresses this in The Anatomy of Fascism...
And its also stressed by Evans in The Coming of the Third Reich, forgrounding how "the conservatives who levered Hitler into power" shared a good deal of his objectives and also despised the SPD and KPD-they were determined to block it government...
...This extended to outright coalitions with the German National People's Party, a more generically right of center political party which aimed at something like revanchism but overlapped with the NSDAP in despising the left and Weimar Democracy.
You don't have to look far for explanations either. Hitler rejected the "Jewish doctrine of Marxism" for rejecting the "aristocratic principle of nature" and racial struggle. Mussolini was a socialist early in life but turned rightewards for power and because he...
..rejected the humanist, materialist, cosmopolitan qualities of socialism and Marxist "deterministic" theory of history. Mussolini (really probable Gentile) framed fascism as the "resolute negation" of "so-called scientific and Marxian socialism" because of this emphasis
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