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How did this thread turn suddenly into spergery?
The Prager U take which stretches definitions to put Nazism on the Left is retarded because of how cock-sure it is. But, more broadly, mapping historical political movements onto the left and right as they are today is always dicey.
Even mapping today's politics is not clear. Pundits like to say that Trump is "far right" but others reasonably say he's close to a 90s liberal, and/or that he has populist views that overlap with Bernie Sanders. As another example, the "neocon" label came about from a split among conservatives over foreign intervention, and that split continues, with both sides finding common cause with factions of the left.
Most who LARP as Nazis today will mostly align with what are considered right-wing parties and policies. That doesn't mean Nazism is definitively right-wing, but it's a criterion that points it in that direction.
The Prager U take which stretches definitions to put Nazism on the Left is retarded because of how cock-sure it is. But, more broadly, mapping historical political movements onto the left and right as they are today is always dicey.
Even mapping today's politics is not clear. Pundits like to say that Trump is "far right" but others reasonably say he's close to a 90s liberal, and/or that he has populist views that overlap with Bernie Sanders. As another example, the "neocon" label came about from a split among conservatives over foreign intervention, and that split continues, with both sides finding common cause with factions of the left.
Most who LARP as Nazis today will mostly align with what are considered right-wing parties and policies. That doesn't mean Nazism is definitively right-wing, but it's a criterion that points it in that direction.
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