goy, and others,
There’s been some impicit criticism here of my statement that the political spectrum is better described as a circle. In actuality, I’m just trying to come up with a visual aid that communicates the exact same thing you are. In other words, the notion that Leftism provides some sort of antidote to Fascism. Expressed another way, I’m trying to oppose the Leftist lie that the farther left they let them take us, the safer we are from Fascism. In reality, of course, they offer same thing.
As I’ve said before, the difference between Fascists and Communists is that the Fascists like a little national in with their socialism.
Perhaps a circle isn’t a perfect visual representation, but it is far better than a straight continuum, for exactly the reasons that goy explains so well. And maybe a circle isn’t completely off, either. Mussolini was perfectly able to move from the Left to the Right, and Mark Steyn made a great comment about some British neo-Nazis converting to Islam. To paraphrase him, they are white supremicists who decided that it was the “supremicist” bit that really mattered to them.
The best framing of the divide comes from Paul Berman (Terror and Liberalism), who does such a good job of showing that the real fight is between liberal, pluralistic democracies and the totalitarian rebels that oppose them.
