Over at Dissecting Leftism, the latest attack on Jonah Goldberg, from the History News Network, is further rebuffed.
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Over at Dissecting Leftism, the latest attack on Jonah Goldberg, from the History News Network, is further rebuffed.
Comments are closed.
Is it really news to anyone that Fascism/Nazism was Leftist? Sheesh! Didn’t anyone read “The Road to Serfdom”?
…or basic history.
Hitler patterned on Mussolini, who copied and admired… Lenin and Stalin.
The Left wants more government intrusion in heath care, education, energy, finance and communication and tries to demonize those opposed to its agenda but the right are the fascists. Up is truly down.
Bill, you forgot the declaration of warfare on ‘class enemies’ and the incitement of political violence against dissenters.
Did we ever come up with a definition of “left” and “right?”
What do you think?
Judging by the previous foray, I’d say that for this bunch still has some splainin’ to do.
http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=24420#comment-104789
The big question on my mind is: why do people claim that the Iranian mullahcracy, Pinochet, and Emperor Kim of North Korea are examples of right-wing regimes? My whimsical suggestion may be pretty close to the lefty answer:
Left wing = collectivist authoritarian
Right wing = noncollectivist authoritarian
I think of “left” as including the following:
– Belief in the concept of class warfare. Government must “equalize” disparities between entire classes by “redistributing” incomes, criminal punishments, etc.
– Belief in the concept of deconstructionism. This is how the Second Amendment gets interpreted as if the phrase “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” is nowhere in the text.
– Aggressor nations can be reasoned with.
– Communists can be trusted with nukes, but rednecks can’t be trusted with shotguns.
– Government must take a significant role in child rearing, and its role doesn’t necessarily stop at adulthood. Consider, for instance, the “hate speech” inquisitions perpetrated by assorted campuses, the Canadian government, and (coughfakeRushquotescough) the National Football League.
– Government must micromanage safety issues.
“Right” would include the following counterarguments:
– Classes are not inherently at war with each other. Everyone must play by the same rules; government must not insure equal outcomes.
– A text means what the author says it means.
– Aggressor nations respond only to force, violent or otherwise.
– In this country, the vast majority of gun owners are not threats. When the vast majority of gun owners are the public sector, as in Cuba, the opposite is true.
– Parents are part of our network of separation of powers. They get final say over how their own children are raised.
– The government role in regulating safety is not nearly as broad as leftist doctrine dictates.
The lists are far from complete, but they’re a start.