Are the far-left and far-right merging together? That’s what the ‘horseshoe theory’ of politics says, but it’s wrong.
Are the far-left and far-right merging together? That’s what the ‘horseshoe theory’ of politics says, but it’s wrong.
Some global issues have prompted partnerships between seemingly strange bedfellows at opposite ends of the political spectrum. The ‘horseshoe theory’ tries to make sense of this, but what’s it about?
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How in the hell would anarchy and fascism ever become one? They're like polar opposites.
Horseshoe Theory believers tend to be fond of libertarian-authoritarian axis erasure, so they think the opposite of fascism is Stalinism instead.
And yeah, auth-right dictatorships and auth-left dictatorships are indeed pretty damn similar, so they'd have a point... if their premise weren't unfounded to begin with.
It’s more that when you become very extreme, the methods become similar regardless of the underlying politics.
Philosophically, sure.
In action and presentation, there's overlaps in outcomes
Anarchy is not left wing, it's its own wing. Communism is left wing. It's effectively fascism with a different name
lol, no.
Lol, yes
In my book and apparently a lot of other peoples books, anarchism is to the left of communism.
Since anarchism is its own political wing to you, could you give a taxonomy or something that shows how anarchism is its own wing?
what do left and right wing mean to you?
Ultimately, a single axis system is completely inadequate to describe anyone's political position.
But for a single left/right, left is communism/socialism/"state capitalism", right is unfettered capitalism. In the "middle" is regulated capitalism with some welfare.
Of course, that's all relative to who's speaking.