Far-right are nostalgic for a world that never was. Far-left are hopeful for a world that can never be.
The far-left generally regard Soviet Russia et al as failed implementations, hence the common refrain "That wasn't true socialism" (corollary being that utopia lies in some novel arrangement). Far-right, OTOH, largely model their ideals on an age of racial purity, ie. the past
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Soviet Russia is only one form of potential nostalgia available to the left, others include the UK postwar consensus & Spanish anarchism.
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But the far-left are generally united in the belief that a truly socialist state has not yet been achieved.
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