Of Left and Right

Ironically,many avowed National-Socialists are distancing themselves from the New Beast, Anders Behring Breivik. On the other hand, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism necessarily have similarities: No Jews in SW Asia vs. No Jews anywhere.

The Avenging Red Hand

There exists significant disagreement among political thinkers as to what left and right are, which thinkers and which beliefs should be classified as leftist and which as rightist, and even whether these terms are meaningful. I am going to attempt my own definition of the terms, which will capture and justify as nearly as I find possible the intuitive common usus loquendi. 

To understand the Right, you must understand the Left. These forces are not independent of each other, and the Left came first. Without the Left there is no need for a Right; and indeed a sincere rightist would like nothing better than a world which has no Right, because it has no Left.

The second thing that must be understood is that Left and Right are directions, not positions. This is obvious enough when the first letters are put in miniscule, but oddly, when one capitalises them and…

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