Originally Posted by life on mars
Go on, I'll bite.
That tedious book based on an out of context comment from HG Wells does not make the argument that 'far left' and 'far right' end up at the same point. It is a popular view (TOBW seems to share it in another post) but in my view it is nonsense - other than an observation that people outside the establishment and outside control of state institutions (until they gain control) will use similar methods of organisation, propaganda and protest.
The only way it is not nonsense is in the sense that when 5,000 German communists were caged in Dachau on 21 March 1933, they occupied the same space as several hundred Nazi guards. Very few of those communists (or the other communists, socialists, trades unionists that followed them into the 'far right' death camps - especially but not only the Jewish ones) survived the experience of their co-existence when the two ends of your circle met.
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