[Still Thinking]

He has a point, although I think the "Four Way Political Quiz" better enunciates the concept and the position of a given individual. (Left vs. Right and authoritarian vs. libertarian)

I also contest his inclusion of fascism on the right. I doubt the leaders of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, for example, would be Republicans if they were around today.

[Still Thinking]

Oh sorry, didn’t realize this was from your own site. Sub “your” for “his”.

[KarlInOhio]

The original Italian fascists were a splinter from their socialist party. Mussolini was the editor of the socialist newspaper Avanti! (Forward!, hmm who had that slogan recently?). He broke from the socialist party because the socialists wanted Italy to remain out of WW I while Mussolini saw the war as a chance to "liberate" Italians living under Austro-Hungarian rule.

[Ohioan]

Fascism is an authoritarian centrist movement. National Socialism is definitely further Left--indeed only the Communists were further Left than the Nazis. For example, Mussolini was ultimately answerable to the King, while the Nazis blocked every effort in Germany & Austria to restore Monarchy.

For one take on the Political Spectrum.

William Flax