With the outbreak of the Second World War, in Arab countries (colonized by the Allied powers, England and France) some governments and movements, mostly for pragmatic reasons, supported the Nazi-fascist Axis forces.

Among them were nationalist groups who, when not remaining neutral, sought to ally with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to defeat the British and French occupying forces. On the other hand, most communist parties – influenced by Stalinist politics – campaigned for enlistment in the colonial army.

Hence, the idea that Arab nationalism would have fascist inspirations. And, nationalism, in general, would also have fascist characteristics, as the case of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil during the Estado Novo or Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina.

Contrary to what happens in fascism, under which working class organizations are crushed, in Egypt’s nationalist regime mass movements were not suppressed, but to a large extent protected.

Eduardo Vasco writes

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/03/nasseris..