In the latest episode of a special documentary series by EpochTV, Joshua Philipp compares the ideologies of communism, fascism, Nazism, and anarchy—both in their inception and development. In American politics today, there’s an idea of far-right versus far-left. However, this is often misrepresented. Both ends of the spectrum—with socialism usually on the far-left, and fascism and Nazism usually on the far-right—are actually all derived from different interpretations of communism. And all of these political ideologies share beliefs in state collectivism, planned economies, and class struggle. The various interpretations of communism first came about after Karl Marx’s predictions about future revolutions proved to be untrue, sending communists of the time back to the drawing board. First, contrary to Marx’s prediction that the livelihood of workers would become worse under capitalism, their livelihoods actually improved. Next, when the communist revolution did happen, it was not in the so-called “late-stage capitalist” societies (which …