| This is a completely worthless, ahistorical comment. > French Revolution, How did that turn out? > American Revolution There is no definition of leftism that would include the American independence movement. The conception of leftism didn't even exist!. My head is about ready to explode. > Mexican Revolution See French revolution. >And the all time greatest threat to the world has been a right wing populist revolution; the rise of Nazi Germany. Pick up a book on the Weimar Republic some day, you might learn something! > Right wing revolutions tend to curtail rights like the Iranian Revolution 'Tend to' I have been repeatedly informed that the Iranian revolution was a liberation from the Western Imperialists & therefore left-wing (yes, seriously). Strangely omitted are the Russian, Chinese, & Cuban revolutions. I wonder why? Frankly, I'm shocked the mods let this topic survive on the front-page for this long. It's a honeypot for every kind of crank to show up and start arguing (myself included)
In summary, you guys need to put down the IDEs & start reading actual history books (not wikipedia & and half-assed bastardized regurgitations of Chomsky) |
Left is progressive, right is conservative. These terms can and are applied to historical events retroactively.
> Pick up a book on the Weimar Republic some day, you might learn something!
How is this a refute?
> Strangely omitted are the Russian, Chinese, & Cuban revolutions. I wonder why?
Neither Russia nor China are considered the West. But why don't you tell us. I can only guess your argument is that left wing revolutions are totally worse than Nazis.