Subject: RE: Hitler reacts to Scott Brown winning Mass Jackemy - 2010-01-21 11:07 AM
So North Korea is nationalistic and militaristic and therefore right-wing?
Well since we know that North Korea is let-wing, then we are essentially saying the communism and Facism are two sides of the same coin. It seems to me that the left right argument and pinning Nazism as a conservative moment is fatally flawed.
Absolutely. Dictatorships should be classified separately from the designations of left-wing and right-wing. Given the historical context, the label of conservative was appropriate: the Nazis sat on the opposite side of the political spectrum from the communists with the ruling social democrats in the middle, and the fact that conservatism at the time was largely defined by authoritarianism and xenophobia. But by today's definition of conservatism, it doesn't apply. And like I said, the Nazis seized power, implemented a dictatorship, and then proceeded to engage in a horrifying genocide. Nobody in the West deserves that comparison. |