re: #202 Salamantis

Fascisms are right wing collectivist totalitarianisms, and communisms are left wing collectivist totalitarianisms. Constitutional democratic republics aren’t on the other side from these two; CDRs are in the center, where individual freedoms are maximized and basic individual rights are guaranteed while the means of making and acting upon collective consensus is electorally preserved. What is on the other side is extreme individualism, otherwise known as anarchy.

On the other side of what? In the first half, yoou claim that the continuum runs from collectivist totalitarianism, through CDRs, to collectivist totalitarianism but of some other flavor.
Then you go on to say that “on the other side” is anarchism, extreme individualism.
But individualist anarchy is a heresy of the right (I think you will agree), and this meshes quite nicely with my contention that collectivist totalitarianism is heresy of the left. There’s your continuum, just as I claimed. Or perhaps you mis-spoke.
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