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wnylib

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12. Well, extremism from the right (fascism)

Reply to rickyhall (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 23, 2021, 04:43 AM

Feb 2021

and extremism from the left (comminism) are flip sides of the coin of authoritarianism. When people give up one extreme, they often switch to its opposite.

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