Didn’t the Left coin the term far-right? Maybe they coined the term “far-left” also, I don’t know, but there are only patriots, and Commie-fascists who love them some oligarchy!
If you research the records in the newspaper clippings from back in the 1920s and 30’s you’ll find that they really played fast and loose with the language with nonsensical terms like ‘Right Wing Socialists’ or talk of ‘The "conservative" wing of the Socialist Party’
The Fascists, for example, were not conservative in any very meaningful sense. They did not wish to preserve the existing order, or even to turn back the clock to some more stable century. They purposefully planned to transform the existing order into a new and all-absorbing authoritarianism, based upon the energies and frustrations of modern industrialism. The Fascists, in a meaningful sense, were revolutionaries. Yet their totalitarian ideal hardly fitted into the pattern of the Left, which had been the traditional home of greater freedoms and more generous aspirations. So, after boggling and uncertainty, they were assigned positions on the far Right.
How It Started with Leftists emulating Nazis and the origins of the left’s 100-year-old “Nazis were far-right” lie.
Didn’t the Left coin the term far-right? Maybe they coined the term “far-left” also, I don’t know, but there are only patriots, and Commie-fascists who love them some oligarchy!
If you research the records in the newspaper clippings from back in the 1920s and 30’s you’ll find that they really played fast and loose with the language with nonsensical terms like ‘Right Wing Socialists’ or talk of ‘The "conservative" wing of the Socialist Party’
Then there is this fact free assertion from 1948:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-centermag.html
The Fascists, for example, were not conservative in any very meaningful sense. They did not wish to preserve the existing order, or even to turn back the clock to some more stable century. They purposefully planned to transform the existing order into a new and all-absorbing authoritarianism, based upon the energies and frustrations of modern industrialism. The Fascists, in a meaningful sense, were revolutionaries. Yet their totalitarian ideal hardly fitted into the pattern of the Left, which had been the traditional home of greater freedoms and more generous aspirations. So, after boggling and uncertainty, they were assigned positions on the far Right.
How It Started with Leftists emulating Nazis and the origins of the left’s 100-year-old “Nazis were far-right” lie.