re: #181 Salamantis

Third Reich Germany and Il Duce’s Italy were about as socialist as communist countries were peoples’ democracies.

True to a certain extent, Salamantis. The Nazis and the Fascists worked by co-opting the industrialists, rather than by outright nationalizing industry. But they made industry do the State’s bidding, nonetheless. Which is scarily like what’s happening right now in the USA, isn’t it?

Look. If you think about it theoretically, the true end-member on the Right side of the spectrum, conventionally speaking, is not collectivist Nazism, because collectivism is anathema to freedom-loving people. Anarchy, or extreme Libertarianism would be closer to the mark.

The problem with wing-nuts, on “both” sides of the spectrum, is that they are nuts, and as such, are not clear thinkers, so they buy into belief systems that are actually contrary to their self-perceived orientation.