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Ocelot II

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6. The extremes of both sides can come full circle and result in totalitarianism.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 09:57 PM
Sep 2025

The left-wing extremism of the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution eventually led to the totalitarian USSR under Stalin. North Korea is still doing it, maybe even more than the USSR. The right-wing extremism of the Nazis and Italian fascists during WWII became totalitarian as well. When an ideology becomes extreme in either direction it's hard to get enough people to go along with it for it to become a state's governing principle unless it's enforced by outlawing and punishing dissent.

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Ultra extremism can make strange bedfellows. John1956PA Sep 2025 #1
It can indeed. DFW Sep 2025 #36
what exactly IS "far left" Skittles Sep 2025 #2
Can you post some far left quotes? leftstreet Sep 2025 #3
"From the river to the sea". " Down with the pigs" marybourg Sep 2025 #4
Anarco syndalists say that? Communists? leftstreet Sep 2025 #5
"Down with the pigs?" vanlassie Sep 2025 #25
I consider the "far left" to be those who are true extremists - Ocelot II Sep 2025 #7
Party for Socialism and Liberation are out there. Along with some anarchists and Black Bloc LeftInTX Sep 2025 #8
The extremes of both sides can come full circle and result in totalitarianism. Ocelot II Sep 2025 #6
It's hard to get more far right than Netanyahu and genocide. I don't know anyone on the left Gaugamela Sep 2025 #9
There is a radical left in the US, but it's small and inconsequential and none are violent, Ocelot II Sep 2025 #10
Of course, I'm well aware of the SLS and the Weather Underground, but they dissolved Gaugamela Sep 2025 #12
I remember as a college student dating a poli. sci. major AllyCat Sep 2025 #11
I'm not a poli sci, but politics is at least two-dimensional and probably more Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #24
Makes sense too. It definitely doesn't seem linear to me AllyCat Sep 2025 #37
I think a lot of the resemblance is superficial Mosby Sep 2025 #13
The far left and far right would agree that "government-run child protective services" should be abolished Justice Brandeis Sep 2025 #17
Not sure if you understand what "far left" is, then muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 #35
Raw milk is also very popular on the far left and far right Justice Brandeis Sep 2025 #18
Sounds serious Torchlight Sep 2025 #33
40 years ago a Professor of mine said... WarGamer Sep 2025 #14
Right and left ideologies markodochartaigh Sep 2025 #15
To a MAGA - the far left is Obama's tan suit. KentuckyWoman Sep 2025 #16
No they are not Locutusofborg Sep 2025 #19
They's just too lovey-dovey with their white skin. And Fuentes, sheesh dude, you're sounding a little like Jim Jones! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Sep 2025 #20
Neither did I until today...watch this explanation, makes a lot of sense!!! BigmanPigman Sep 2025 #21
The anti Israel and anti Jewish thing and conspiracy theories JI7 Sep 2025 #22
I think of it as "extreme right" and "fringe left" Blasphemer Sep 2025 #23
Hell no....................... Lovie777 Sep 2025 #26
No. They've co-opted "Antifa" and call people "Nazi" as an ironic projection and groupthink underpants Sep 2025 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author ZDU Sep 2025 #28
I think the issue is meme culture... regnaD kciN Sep 2025 #29
Insightful ZDU Sep 2025 #30
MINO MAGA In Name Only no_hypocrisy Sep 2025 #31
Sounds like some stay the course yargle bargle. GreenWave Sep 2025 #32
Fuck no. marble falls Sep 2025 #34
Agree. Smells somewhat of B.See Sep 2025 #38
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