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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Agreed that the far left and far right are essentially mirror images of each other in some ways. I'm just questioning how the convention came to depict them at the far right of the spectrum. Except for Mussolini getting the trains to run on time, those people share nothing with people like Buckley. Take out the hatred and elbow-room stuff, and you have run-of-the-mill socialism run amok.
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I disagree.
I think Fascism is depicted as "on the right" or, rather, "way off to the right" because it generally includes as a matter of core philosophy strong elements of jingoistic nationalism and xenophobia. Its economic policies, etc. were also infused with a corporatist/statist mix of the state supporting large industry.
Fascism has nothing of the class-based "universal brotherhood of man" model essential to socialist and communist theory. It also generally doesn't centralize and redistribute property.
S_A_M
