Nazi-maoism

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 reactionary". Nazi-Maoists such as Freda wanted to form a "Fascist dictatorship of the proletariat", by using the Maoist guerrilla strategy of people's war to overthrow the government and the bourgeoisie.

Nazi-Maoism is mostly believed to have faded away after the Lotta di Popolo group dissolved itself in 1973. Some forms of Nazi-Maoism were still being espoused by other groups until the late 1970s, but they were not as active as the Struggle of the People was. Some slogans are still being used by numerous extra-parliamentary right-wing political groups, such as Terza Posizione and Forza Nuova. Despite the accentuated anti-communist and nationalist positions which are typically espoused by far-right political groups, they strongly focus on social problems, and they are also violently anti-American and anti-Zionist.