Paternalistic conservatism
The term right-wing socialism is a term used by some free-market right-libertarian movements and politicians to describe paternalistic conservatism as they see it supporting paternalism and social solidarity as opposed to individualism, commercialism and "laissez-faire" economics. They argue that paternalist conservatism supports state promoted social hierarchy and allows certain people and groups to hold higher status in such a hierarchy, which is conservative. The term is also used—more commonly, but distinctly—to refer to moderate social democratic forms of socialism when contrasted with Marxism–Leninism and other more radical left-wing alternatives. In "The Communist Manifesto", Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticised the "Philosophy of Poverty" by the anarchist writer and theorist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon as representing conservative or bourgeois socialism. Military socialism, guild socialism, agrarian socialism and some forms of Christian socialism are also termed right-wing socialism by various authors.
Anton Maegerle
Some Conservatives accuse Maegerle's work of containing a leftist bias because he makes nearly no distinction between Conservatives and Nazis, and criticize that he receives public money for this. For example, Maegerle defends the use of political correctness, and published an article in the left-wing newspaper "Jungle World" during the German federal election, 2002 in which he, as a SPD member, accused CDU chancellor candidate Edmund Stoiber of having ""best ties to the twillight zone of right-wing extremism"". The extremism researcher Eckhard Jesse has criticized Maegerle for "scent[ing] in the well-known Antifa manner almost everywhere right-wing extremists."