[ExI] Political Relativism (was very informative)

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 02:28:00 UTC 2020


Sure all of those examples are true, as is very obvious to me and
everyone,  but that's not what I meant. I mean:  if you take a group of
extremists of either right or left (and now I am not sure what is meant by
'left') will they be more authoritarian than less extreme people?  And/or
does becoming more extreme make one more authoritarian?  That's the data I
want.

  We have identified the left as towards socialism and communism, but the
left is traditionally liberal. There is nothing liberal about China or
Russia.  'Liberal', I remind you, comes from 'freedom - liberty'.

I am just confused.  Very.  bill w

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 6:50 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Quoting Bill Wallace:
>
> >> But you are correct in that extremists on both
> >> the left and the right become increasingly authoritarian the further
> >> out on their respective wings they are.
>
> > Can I get a link to that data, please?  bill w
>
>
> Examples of far right-wing authoritarianism:
> Nazi Germany- https://muse.jhu.edu/article/13553
> Fascist Italy-
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/jun/25/artsandhumanities.highereducation
>
> Examples of far left-wing authoritarianism:
> Soviet Union-
>
> https://www.grunge.com/172246/the-worst-part-of-the-ussr-isnt-what-you-think/
> People's Republic of China-
> https://www.cfr.org/article/communist-chinas-painful-human-rights-story
>
> Can you think of any historical or current counter-examples of a
> fascist or communist state where the people were free?
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
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