Maoism in Europe

thumb|Flag of the New Order (Ordine Nuovo), with whom Freda was affiliated. Nazi-Maoism was a political movement and an ideology that emerged in Italy around 1968, with the formation of a group known as Struggle of the People (Lotta di Popolo). This group of students, from the Sapienza University of Rome, took heavy inspiration from the writings and theories of Franco Freda, and advocated for a combination of ideas from both the far-left and the far-right. According to the neo-fascist group Terza Posizione, Nazi-Maoism's stance was "neither capitalism nor communism, neither reds nor reactionar