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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
No, you're comparing Germany's Fascism with the USSR, which was not Communism, but another dose of Fascism... and neither are left. (no pun intended)  |
Bruce, I'll trust Erik von Kühnelt-Leddihn's judgement on that one over yours, slightly sorry to say -- however much easier your handle is to spell than his. He was as bright as both of us put together, maybe with Wolf added in. (I wouldn't add Radar except as a make-weight.) Were you to bother to get his
Leftism Revisited you'd have the understanding of it that I do: he makes the case that both are in the leftward end of the spectrum. Until you do this bit of required reading, you're flailing away in disgraceful ignorance. Not a problem I have.
The left side of the aisle began as a French enthusiasm for using a large, activist, much-empowered State to right social ills. Nothing, really, more than that. In the beginning.