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To: LesX who wrote (1482)	9/2/1998 10:21:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

No. Extremism whether left or right wing is authoritarian and militaristic. Extremism is extremism. Castro, Mao, and Stalin are good examples of extreme leftisms. JLA

To: LesX who wrote (1482)	9/3/1998 10:05:00 AM
From: j_b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<In theory left wing, in practice right>> Interesting issue - communism is an economic system crossed with a political system. Right vs left used to be socialism vs democracy, which never really made sense, since one is an economic system and one is a political system - apples and oranges. A better comparison would be between fascism and democracy or socialism with capitalism. If you cross fascism with capitalism, you get the third-world dictators of today, or the Hitlers of the past. If you cross fascism with socialism, you get Stalin or Mao. Cross capitalism with democracy and you get the U.S., but cross socialism with democracy and you get some of the European countries. For the most part, the economic systems in the world today are a combination of socialism and capitalism (ours is a good example), and the first world countries are democracies to some degree with strong government control (fascism?) to some degree. We all seem satisfied with that in concept, but differ on what the mix should be.