[Hardastarboard]

I read an article on line a few years ago that labeled Nazis as right wingers. I sent an email to the author (a college professor, much smarter than any of us, doncha know) explaining that the Nazis were socialists, LEFT WINGERS. The author's assistant responded to me, saying that the author identified them that way because that was the way they were traditionally identified, or some nonsense. I responded to her that it was incorrect, and a slur against conservatives.

Surprise, surprise, no response.

[Steely Tom]

The author's assistant responded to me, saying that the author identified them that way because that was the way they were traditionally identified, or some nonsense.

I would think that the terms in which an organization identified itself, - in its founding documents and in the name it took - would be the "way they were traditionally identified."

In the case of the Nazi party, the name they took was die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or "the National Socialist German Workers Party."

The only "tradition" here is the traditional degree to which Left wingers would like to re-write history so as to airbrush out their failures and redirect the responsibility onto their political enemies. In this case they cannot do this, because the record is very clear.

In the case of the racial history of the American South, their efforts have been much more successful.

[PIF]

Dear Hardastarboard fellow FReper,
You need to understand that the term ‘right wing’ does indeed refer to the ‘right wing’ of the socialist movement or NAZI Party, as opposed the the ‘left wing’ or the Communist movement. The professor’s aide was correct.

You have taken the bait to heart - dished out by the US socialist left which more closely identifies itself with the Communist movement. Ever since Hitler betrayed the Communists by invading Russia, the US left has hated the NAZIs and sought to identify their enemies in the US as NAZIs or ‘right wingers’.

You, as a proud Conservative, are neither ‘right’ nor ‘left wing.’ Rather, you stand for conserving the principles this country was founded on, as well as Christian morality, etc.

Labeling yourself as a ‘right wing’ Conservative is to fall for the semantic trap laid by the left - words mean things and to fall for the trap is to muddle your message - as the left wishes.

[tophat9000]

The left likes to sees right-left as nationalist vs international....the right see right sees right-left as free market/capitalism/libertarian vs socialist /communist / state authoritarianism