Nasser was a fascist who was helped to power by the United States, who only turned pro-Soviet (as in the revisionist government of Khrushchev) because of the growing relation between the U.S. and Israel, and who STILL got British and French help with his anti-communist purges.

He was the head of a bureaucratic bourgeois government whose claims of "socialism" were utterly bunk. What "socialism" comes to power in a military coup and not a proletarian revolution? What "socialism" can be easily whittled away by a successor government?

Socialism in USSR was destroyed three years after Stalin's death, it took a series of struggles and manipulations for that to happen. The same as with China, it took two years for Deng's line to be cemented. And yet, the line of Egypt was bureaucratic bourgeois fascism.

Nasser's policies were criticized by the most revolutionary factions of the West Asian communist parties, and those factions were betrayed by Khrushchevites who sided with bourgeois Pan-Arabists, and killed off by Nasser and his acolytes.

Oh sure, some self-professed communists worked for Nasser. So too did some work with Saddam Hussein and Hafez al-Assad. That is not proof of Nasser being a "revolutionary", that is proof of opportunism and revisionism being the aids to fascism and reactionary ideology.

Praising Nasser just means you praise reaction and you don't care about the communists, the TRUE revolutionaries, who he had put in prison, left to rot for the crime of making revolution. It is right to rebel against reaction. Nasser was reaction.