05-04-2017, 02:23 PM
(05-04-2017, 06:55 AM)Odin Wrote:(05-03-2017, 03:26 PM)David Horn Wrote: 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).
I agree that any theory taken too literally will have holes. Still, authoritarian types lean on police and military power in similar ways, regardless of their supposed ideological base.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.