On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:04:56 +1000
jam...@echeque.com wrote:
> On 2018-11-21 12:39, juan wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:31:11 +0000 (UTC)
> > jim bell <jdb10...@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'?
