re: #136 jcm

Right Authoritarian and Left Authoritarian.

Both are Authoritarian, gut get there from different sides of of the spectrum.

Only because “the spectrum” as it is currently viewed, is the result of a masterful disinformation campaign by Josef Stalin, and brought to America by his acolyte, Walter Duranty of the New York Times.

I recommend that you read Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.

To put it in a nutshell: in Weimar Germany, the Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were bitter rivals, because they were both peddling the same collectivist pablum to the same market segment. Same thing in Italy. Mussolini was a Socialist before he became a Fascist, and he said he always still considered himself a socialist at heart.

Needless to say, once the Internationalist Socialist USSR came to swords’ points with National Socialist Germany, it became necessary for Stalin to demonize Nazi politics as something altogether alien, hence Nazism became “right-wing.” They are both statist, collectivist, and coercive movements, and they are both enemies of freedom.