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Andrew H.'s avatar

While I don't like the terms "right wing/left wing" as often just being loose terms that get bent and mis-shaped to adhere to a "good <---> evil" script. I think you have done the best possible job to explain what a "right wing" should be aiming towards.

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WeepingWillow's avatar

I've argued his for years. Nazism, and basically any of the numerous descendents of Prussian Socialism, are intensly left wing movements. Because not only do they share it's utopianism, but the whole idea of organising society to some willed plan outside tradition is the very basis of left thought.

This is the entire point Tolkien (a true right winger) hammered home in the Lord of the Rings. Saurons original motivation is reorganisation of the world to improve it. He was a an angel skilled in technics. And like all world improvers, eventually his good intentions gave way to pure hateful nihilism as things didn't go the way he wanted.

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