Where Left Means Right

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/06/21/where_left_means_right ^ | JULY/AUGUST 2010 | JOSHUA E. KEATING

[raygun]

I could fix that with a pix, eh?

[raygun]

[raygun]

We're good, right?

[skintight buffoonery]

Was the NSDAP even considered “right” in 1933?

I THINK that the habit of characterising the nazis as far right came a bit later, and had a lot to do with the war and related soviet propaganda.

[ash-housewares]

To many observers, no. I am not trying to play William Shirer, just to say, the fall of the Weimar Republic was complex, and that left/right distinctions are inevitably circumscribed.

It has its uses, to a point

[ash-housewares]

I see your wager and raise you a Canadian pound:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cristina_Kirchner_and_Canada_PM_Stephen_Harper.jpg