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David C. Brower (dbrower@us.oracle.com) wrote:
: dbakken@bbn.com (David Bakken) writes:

: >
: >Um, I don't know how to break it to you, but the Nazis were 
: >socialistic leftists....unless of course you define all bad guys
: >to be on the right...
: >
: >Not to let facts get in the way, though.  

: This is the wildest bit of historical revisionism I've ever seen.

: I'm going to laugh rather than cry, and hope this is as abberant as it
: seems.

But, it's true.... Nowadays, people easily interchange "right-wing" and
"conservative" or "left-wing" and "liberal", as though they meant the same
thing.  They don't.

If anything, the Nazi's were extreme left-wing socialists *and* extreme
social conservatives.  "Socialist" and "social" do not mean the same thing
in this sentence.  Granted, this is Politics 101-type stuff, but alot of
folks out there *really* don't know the difference!

It is also possible to be politically right-wing and socially liberal.
Folks that are might be called Libertarians :)

It's all too easy to stereotype...

brian


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