The French, Coming Apart

[Odin]

(05-03-2017, 03:26 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-02-2017, 06:12 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(05-02-2017, 04:03 PM)Odin Wrote:

(04-30-2017, 06:43 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: To the contrary, the socialism came first; the name came later, to differentiate the national socialists from the international socialists.

You're spouting alternative facts. The Nazis are FASCISTS, they are FAR-RIGHT. Claiming otherwise makes you either a propagandist or a brainwashed idiot.

We're splitting hairs. Ultimately, Stalin, Hitler and those like them were and are Totalitarians. Hannah Arendt was very keen about this point.

There was a political theory at one time that the extremes of all philosophies were closer together ideologically than they were with their own less strident compatriots.  I don't see much separating Hitler and Stalin, in practice or otherwise.

AFAIK "Horseshoe Theory" is widely mocked by political scientists, nowadays. Though in my opinion it definitely applies in some narrow cases like in populist movements (where you get right-wing populists aping the rhetoric of the Left) and some conspiracism-prone counterculture types (where you get people often almost sounding like Right-Libertarian nuts).