Is Labour Anti-Semitic?

[life on mars]

Think RB is referring to the horseshoe effect is and us probaly right .

The horseshoe theory, also known as the horseshoe effect, in political science claims that the far-left and far-right are more similar to each other in essentials than either is to the political center.[note 1]

It was formulated by the French post-postmodernist philosopher Jean-Pierre Faye in 1996,[2] but similar ideas existed previously.[3] Faye believed that the extremes of the political spectrum both represented totalitarianism of different kinds; this meant that the political spectrum should not be described as a linear bar with the two ends representing the far-left and right being ideologically the furthest apart from each other, but as a horseshoe in which the two ends are closer to each other than to the center.

[RonnieBird]

Think RB is referring to the horseshoe effect is and us probaly right .

The horseshoe theory, also known as the horseshoe effect, in political science claims that the far-left and far-right are more similar to each other in essentials than either is to the political center.[note 1]

It was formulated by the French post-postmodernist philosopher Jean-Pierre Faye in 1996,[2] but similar ideas existed previously.[3] Faye believed that the extremes of the political spectrum both represented totalitarianism of different kinds; this meant that the political spectrum should not be described as a linear bar with the two ends representing the far-left and right being ideologically the furthest apart from each other, but as a horseshoe in which the two ends are closer to each other than to the center.

That's very interesting because I used to go round saying something very similar in the 70s, and I think it's true really, although for what it's worth I'd also say that Hitler was a socialist in his own right. I say " for what it's worth " because I don't personally take any party political position and people usually go down this line as a means of hammering the Labour Party .

To my mind, anyone who thinks there's anything real or positive coming out of either of the main parties is going to be disappointed , so I'm reluctant to take sides between them.

I started off by saying that socialism is implicitly anti Semitic , which it is, and we got drawn into Hitlers political ideas. Again ,this is clear to an objective observer , but the other side of the coin I tossed in the first paragraph is that people who want to argue a glass eye to sleep on the issue are doing that to promote the Labour Party .

Your intelligent and non confrontational contribution is appreciated though because there seems to be a bit of negative and overly combat active crap sometimes. I'm delighted that people form their own opinions ,even if they don't coincide with mine, but some people seem to get angry if you put a contrary point of view.