On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:04:56 +1000 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
On 2018-11-21 12:39, juan wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:31:11 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
In any case, I think that the 'convention' that we refer to "fascism" as being "right-wing" was, and is, completely phony.�
so assuming that commies and nazis and other fascists are on the left, who is on the right then?
Whosoever wants to restore civilization against the darkness is on the right.
uh oh. So let's make clear what "the right" means. As Jim B. pointed out, the left/right classification comes from the french revolution. What needs to be added is that the people who sat on "the right" of the assembly were the conservatives/monarchists/theocrats or representatives of the 'ancien regime'. Now, key features of fascism are close cooperation between the 'private' sector and government and nationalism-militarism, also known as imperialism. Fascists usualy believe that they are god's chosen master race and that they have a Manifest Destiny. In other words the old mercantilists from the british empire and modern day fascists like the americunts are both 'right wingers'. And actually modern day corporatists-imperialists are simply the continuantion of 18th century imperialists. So the question for Jim Bell remains. What political doctrines are 'right wing'?