To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan
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.
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04/21/2014 11:15:34 AM PDT by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Still Thinking
Oh sorry, didn’t realize this was from your own site. Sub “your” for “his”.
3 posted on
04/21/2014 11:16:47 AM PDT by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Still Thinking
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.
8 posted on
04/21/2014 11:25:59 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
To: Still Thinking
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
24 posted on
04/21/2014 12:27:41 PM PDT by
Ohioan
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