On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:19 PM, David B. Shemano <[email protected]> wrote: > Louis Proyect writes: > >>> For the same reason that Hitler was rightwing despite railing against >>> the banks and declaring for socialism. Huey Long is a bit different. I >>> am not sure that he can be called leftwing, but he was not a reactionary. > > Keep going. Why was Hitler right-wing as opposed to left-wing for purposes > of the terminology? Why was Father Coughlin like Hitler for purposes of the > terminology? If you mean to say that anything including anti-Jewish rhetoric > is by definition right-wing, then say it, but I am not going to assume that > is what you are saying. >
Hitler considered himself as representing the exact opposite of everything communism stood for and was very consistent about it. The opposite of the extreme left is the extreme right. QED. -raghu. -- Confucius say, dirty book rarely dusty. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
