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Originally Posted by gualbert
I can hardly differentiate left wing and right wing politicians.
I just watched a documentary on Mussolini: he started as a socialist, but didn't succeed as such, so he turned right wing/fascist.
A modern guy, I say.
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In a way that encapsulates elements of my original question. The twentieth century was marked by a conflict between the extreme Right and the extreme Left. Since the fall of the wall though, and especially since 9/11, the Left seems to have lost any real political profile, with the Right's greatest critics now coming not from the Left (at least not in any kind of visible way) but from a hyper conversative strain of Islam. This doesn't just question the modern-day validity of the Left but also liberalism, and especially the kind of Left-Liberalism which seems so incapable of forming a coherent position with regards the conflict in the Middle East.