Re: Damned European Socialists ;-) [was off list]

Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:57:56 -0500

Timothy Bates wrote:
>PS: In part, reflects of how little use is the term "right wing". As the
>late Hans Eysenck pointed out, both Stalin and Hitler were authoriatarian
>butchers, and it seems uninformative to call one left-, and the other
>right- wing. In many ways the libertarian philosophy is radical left but
>is typically characterised as radical right. The terms are of little
>value in practice. Sociology has failed, as far as I can see to give us a
>useful term.

What the heck is wrong with the term "libertarian?" ;)

-Dan

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