From: Benjamin Grosman <bgrosman@healey.com.au>
To: varange@crl.com
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From: Benjamin Grosman <bgrosman@healey.com.au>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 04:39:22 -0800 (PST)
To: varange@crl.com
Subject: Re: The Difference Between The Right And Left
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19961129093614.0074bd4c@healey.com.au>
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Dear Sir,
[snip generalised rambling]
> The left wing is a rather motly collection including many
> anarchists, communists and nazis, yet many of the same
> types are decidedly right wing.
>
> A historical anecdote would be the Bucharin-Rykov wing of
> the Bolshevik party in the late twenties. They were right
> wing while Stalin was left wing. Yet, Bucharin would be
> considered quite radical for today's bean counting
> politics.
Even easier, take the Nazi Party. There name points towards the left wing of
the political spectrum, and yet their policies were left wing only for the
higher echelon, which makes them right wing, as their policies weren't for
the good of the people overall. Their decided tyranny of many spectrums of
the population was also deliberately right wing. And yet the regime was not
tyrannical according to the mould developed by Stalin. It was popular: it
was voted in, and it was supported by the majority of the people throughout
it's rule.
I think you have some decent points. But they are off topic in this list,
and also highly generalised. Such a dissentation is worthy of a thesis, not
a mere hundred or so words.
Yours Sincerely,
Benjamin Grosman
> This is, of course, confusing to y'all because your all a
> bunch of stupid college kids.
>
>--
>Cheers!
>
>
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