bump, but the argument in this article feels as old as the hills. Of course left and right are not absolute eternal definitions; they are relative to one’s perspective. I remember the people feverishly working on new charts, diagrams, after 1989
So if in Germany, 27 February 1933, the NSDAP was “right” and the KPD was “left” (where Rosa Luxemburg had defected), does that furnish any guidance whatsoever today? Everything depends on circumstances, otherwise there’d be no need to think
Godwin in 18
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.