Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

"Right wing" response More

"Right wing" response

Comments Filter:
  • Left and right wing certainly no longer mean what they used to, and bear zero relationship to what they originally meant in the 18th century.

    Anyways, China is in a big transition period and probably can't be classified in any meaningful way for another 10 or 20 years regardless.

    • Agreed.

      So, my question is (a bit off the original topic) with the Democrats in such a mess, beyond much reasonable hope of recovering, who'll create the third party to replace them? I mean, in American history that's pretty much the pattern.

      Unless, of course, a party changes from within. I mean, the Republican Party today is a distant echo of the party of Lincoln, including all the northern Nativist folks who swept into it in the late 1850s.

      Obviously, the Greens aren't going to work. They are far too

      • I don't know who will replace the democrats, but it won't matter. Those who currently define the democratic party will infiltrate whatever new party may rise up to take their place. After a while, it'll be mostly the same bad ol' democrats with a new front and a few new faces. The politicians themselves won't give up their power so easy, you can be sure of that. And no new party will have the discipline to background check every person who wants to join and reject those who were the primary sources of t

        • Well, on this point I disagree. I just cannot believe these hidden persuaders or whatever you want to called them -- might as well say commies 'cause that's what you mean -- were around in 1906. Here's how and why I disagree.

          There is no doubt (and so I agree with you) the politically skilled will find a home with better curry for them in whatever party emerges from Democratic ashes. That is only sense. AND it has a historical basis, from published research I coauthored with my professor of American his

          • Well, on this point I disagree. I just cannot believe these hidden persuaders or whatever you want to called them -- might as well say commies 'cause that's what you mean -- were around in 1906.

            Um, they were. Check out the strikes in 1877 that started against B&O RailRoad in Pittsburgh and quickly spread to Buffalo, Milwaukee, Cleveland, St. Louis and elsewhere. Instigated by socialists.

            Or the "anarchists" of Haymarket Square, Chicago in 1886.

            Let's not forget Eugene Debs, who appeared on the scene

  • There's a long article about political taxonomy [fool.com] mentioned today over at The Motley Fool [fool.com] which addresses this same subject.

    I do not know if The Fool's message boards are public access but at least all The Fool's subscribers can check it out.

    It's interesting.

Slashdot Top Deals

8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss

Close