Mystery Socialist wrap-up

So here we have our protagonist, growing up in a country noted for its early embrace of socialism, exposed to war profiteers in the period of collapse, and developing a socialist's sense of poverty and the solutions to it. He embarks on a third path between the Marxists on one hand and the "individualists" or "Manchesterites" on the other, both of whom he perceives as exploiters of the worker for their own nefarious ends (detailed in this post).

He rises to the head of a worker's party, recruiting from the laboring classes as he goes. The program (detailed in this post) is one which favors labor, small merchants, and small farmers in opposition to the landed classes, usurers, and exploiters. In a nation in which the Communist Party refers to the Socialist Party as "social fascists", it is no surprise that his party is also labeled as right wing despite its socialist foundations. It doesn't help that our protagonist obtains his funding from the other anti-semitic businessmen in the country; but, as we have seen, Europe's problems with anti-semitism even infected the wealthy Marx and and industrialist scion Engels themselves, so these traits are not reliable indicators of a person's political orientation.

And yet today, after having witnessed the similarities between his policies after his party achieved electoral success and those of men like Stalin and Castro, they are all somehow viewed as not socialist. Apologists at the time cited them as examples we should follow. The results are all the same.

I'll say it again: The Left may not favor the police state, but they are for a police state. The Right is just the opposite: While they claim to be against a powerful, central government, they keep building the powerful, central government.