"What does "leftist," for example, mean? Nothing, really. If there were an ideological spectrum (there is not) then "leftist" and "rightist" would be opposites and moving toward the left would mean embracing more the ideas of Marx while moving toward the right would mean moving toward Hitler. But this is historical nonsense. Hitler and all the leading Nazis passionately embraced socialism and loathed "capitalism." All those murderous and hateful cliques -- Bolsheviks, Fascists, and Nazis -- loathed the God of Jews and Christians. All despised liberty, including economic liberty. Why then do we think in terms of an ideological spectrum? Our enemies, the "left" for want of a better term, invented the ideological spectrum. Why use the language of our enemies? We should not."
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