RE: Wisconsin Protests: State Police Pursue Democratic Lawmakers Boycotting Vote
February 19, 2011 at 1:15 am
(February 19, 2011 at 12:42 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:What about left wing fascists?
We don't have much of a problem with them...if they exist...at the moment. The "left" gets hung with the tag "socialist" or "communist."
You don't have a problem, but a great deal of south america, Hungary and other eastern European nations have a problem with them. Fascism and Socialism/Communism aren't mutually exclusive, it's classically portrayed as mostly right-wing thing, but that is only on the 1 dimensional left/right scale, with the authoritarian/libertarian aspect considered it's either left or right along with extreme authoritarianism and a collectivist attitude (which is more prominent in socialism to begin with).
Quote:When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. -Sinclair Lewis
Sure, it would make the fascists more appealing to patriots, the religious and other plainly irrational positions where the crowd mentality sets in strong, but being to the right neither means you are ultra patriotic or religious. America has a disproportionate amount of ultra patriotic bigoted religious folk on the right, that skews perspectives a bit.
Quote:I see nothing to suggest that Lewis was incorrect.
He wasn't wrong about America, but if he'd said that about Russia after Lenin's death when their authoritarian streak started he would have been wrong.
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