John Smith: The left-right spectrum is misleading – coming from the seating arrangements of Second Republic French parliament with the monarchists on the right and the anarchists on the left. Reality is more of a circle with state communism and fascism quite similar and the differences superficial. Fascism has private corporations, but these corporations are de facto the government. Both have at least some religions, but government control over them makes a mockery of the idea of religious freedom. Etc. The opposite in government is democracy and in economics is free enterprise (primarily sole ownership and cooperatives).
John Smith: The left-right spectrum is misleading – coming from the seating arrangements of Second Republic French parliament with the monarchists on the right and the anarchists on the left. Reality is more of a circle with state communism and fascism quite similar and the differences superficial. Fascism has private corporations, but these corporations are de facto the government. Both have at least some religions, but government control over them makes a mockery of the idea of religious freedom. Etc. The opposite in government is democracy and in economics is free enterprise (primarily sole ownership and cooperatives).