Left Vs. Free Speech (dictatorship of pseudo-intellectuals)

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For many years, the left's tactic was to pretend to care about average citizens. In the last century, the motto was the "dictatorship of the proletariat" (still a dictatorship, of course). Then, when American workers showed no interest in the Sovietization of Michigan, outraged leftists retreated into the Dictatorship of the Intellectuals.

Now we have the would-be dictatorship of the pseudo-intellectuals.

Some people have the quaint idea that it's just the 2'nd Amendment which the left wants to get rid of...

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I agree Ralph Peters is very much a pseudo-intellectual.

Anyone that claims the Nazi party was left wing certainly doesn't know their history.

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The political spectrum runs the gamut from totalitarian government schemes (100% government control) on the extreme left to anarchy (0% government) on the extreme right.

The Nazis were definitely of the totalitarian mindset. No doubt about it.

The fact that liberals in America have long been laboring to associate Nazism with the right does not alter the fact that the Nazi total government solution bears little or no resemblance to the American conservative 'small government' group on the right.

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real life wrote:

The political spectrum runs the gamut from totalitarian government schemes (100% government control) on the extreme left to anarchy (0% government) on the extreme right.

The Nazis were definitely of the totalitarian mindset. No doubt about it.

The fact that liberals in America have long been laboring to associate Nazism with the right does not alter the fact that the Nazi total government solution bears little or no resemblance to the American conservative 'small government' group on the right.

Well, let's write the Nazi history again then. And that of anarchism, of course, as well. As that of totalitarianism.

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No reason to rewrite any history.

Rather, we should abandon the bogus political spectrum that is so widely used today showing totalitarianism (communism) on the far left and totalitarianism (nazism) on the far right. In the 'middle' are big government liberals.

This implies that positions like anarchism are somehow 'between' totalitarian extremes. Ridiculous.

A much more realistic political spectrum has totalitarianism (100% government ) on one side and anarchism (0% government) on the other. And everyone else somewhere between them.

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Maybe you should stick with the actual spectrum that is normally used. It has 2 axis. left to right and libertarian to authoritarian.

google political spectrum. No one uses what you claim should be abandoned real life. Anarchy is on the libertarian axis. Totalitarianism is the authoritarian.

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real life wrote:

No reason to rewrite any history.

But sure. And any theories and guidelines in political sciences as well - both from the very beginning when these two sciences were taught at university.

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real life wrote:

No reason to rewrite any history.

Rather, we should abandon the bogus political spectrum that is so widely used today showing totalitarianism (communism) on the far left and totalitarianism (nazism) on the far right. In the 'middle' are big government liberals.

This implies that positions like anarchism are somehow 'between' totalitarian extremes. Ridiculous.

A much more realistic political spectrum has totalitarianism (100% government ) on one side and anarchism (0% government) on the other. And everyone else somewhere between them.

I would agree with one axis (from totalitarianism to anarchism), but don't see the point in squeezing the left-right orientation unto the same axis...

Doesn't really render any useful results.

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