[ExI] Political Relativism (was very informative)

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Wed Dec 30 02:48:54 UTC 2020


On 2020-12-29 16:49, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:
> Can you think of any historical or current counter-examples
> of a fascist or communist state where the people were free?

Can anyone name a recent oppressive state that has not been described as 
either "right-wing" or "left-wing"?  (Maybe a Muslim absolute monarchy.)

Maybe it's not that philosophical extremism leads to authoritarianism, 
but that authoritarianism makes a lean to one wing more blatant.

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