Granted, the one-party rule, the secret police, the nationalist mythology and the tanks were all somewhat North Korean. Then again, there are lots of people who still think North Korea is the left-wing end of the Korean peninsula... hm.
Do you never get the feeling that maybe the water-muddying is a result of trying to do something impossible, which is to require every past, present and future politician to define themselves first and foremost by whether they'd have sat with the abolitionists or the retentionists in the French Revolutionary Assembly of 1789?
That perhaps, in the context of the war in Ukraine, Putin's deliberate strategy of employing the rhetoric of both wings simultaneously would not have confused so many of us for so long, if so much of our self-worth were not tied up in being on the same "wing" as everyone we like and on the opposite "wing" to everyone we dislike?
Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:35 pm
I suppose at least we have been spared the "Hitler was a leftie because his party had SOCIALIST in their name" spiel. Small mercies eh.
That spiel isn't an argument against lefties. It's an argument against evaluating a person by what wing they're on, as opposed to whether they murdered 17 million civilians.
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