Far right v far left

I agree with you OP, it drives me potty. Some people label everything right of centre as far right or fascist but they don't seem to think that a far left even exists. Just cuddly socialists who want equality and the best for everyone.

People on the left love to blame Brexit on the far right, but many a Marxist commie type will have voted for Brexit because communists and marxists are basically pretty nationalistic bunch. Far right and Far left have a lot in common actually.

People love to say Reform are fascist or far right but they are absolutely nothing of the sort. Not even close. Far Right and Far left are both very authoritarian and believe in a big state. Reform are all about personal freedoms and small state. More like old school Tories before the Tories went daft in the head.

I agree with the definitions you've already been given on the thread.

To the extreme left of the political spectrum. Communist ideology, revolutionary socialism, Marxism.

To be annoying, no I don't agree. The mistake getting made is to think there is 'the' far right, 'the' far left. They aren't monolithic. It's like saying 'the' GC movement as if it were The Tory party (and of course as we know even political parties are broad churches to some degree). When we talk about far left and think 'Stalin' or far right and 'Nazi', we fall into a trap. Especially as those examples are now very outdated. America first, incel, alt-right, generation identitaire, Tommy R...they are all just casual groupings that move and slide. You can't pin them down with one 'explanation', theory or definition. They are multifaceted and shifting. That video of trump is a glaring point in case.

Politics is a spectrum and to be at the far end of the spectrum is to be extreme. Politics tends to be based on ideology and there is clearly defined far left and far right ideology.

As I said in my first post, there's currently a push to render the far right meaningless as people don't want to be associated with it.

As such this thread, like all the other similar threads, is disengenuous. The far right parties in Europe share similar ideals if you take the time to study them.

@Maitri108

your posts on this thread are so ridiculous I almost can't actually believe you're real

This.

Not based on that definition. Or pretty much most of the ones on here.

If this thread is an example of political awareness, it is no wonder we are in the state we are in.

I've already answered this above.

In a UK context, as I've already explained, far right would cover those to the right of mainstream people on the Tory benches. Some of them eg Jenrick and Braverman, I'd regard as being borderline far right.

Far left is a mirror image, those well to the left of mainstream Labour and I'd regard a few current/previous Labour people like Abbot and Corbin as being borderline far let.

I don't think it's accurate or helpful to automatically conflate far right with old fashioned Fascists like Mosely etc advocated for in the thirties.

Both far left and far right approve of:

Burning books
Censorship of the media
Punishing the demons
Installing their own ideology by ripping out the old

This is why I loathe both ends of the spectrum. I have deep seated dread of authority and I think that's the big commonality between the two ends. They are so convinced they are right they steam roller dissent.

Far right has become meaningless. I've heard Boris and my former local MP (middle-of-the-road Tory) described as "far right" which is absurd.

The extemists on the left (Trans Rights activists, the hardcore critical race theory people) have MUCH better PR.... ("we're just trying to be kind to the vulnerable people $")

$ White woman can't be vulnerable, obvs

IMO
far right = nazi party
Far left = DDR govt that was

Both are authoritarian and have little respect for human life and both are really shit options IMO.

The far left post constantly about how companies should give up their profit margins to the workers. Hate farmers and wish to see land given up to them for free (or very cheaply) so they can occupy it with their caravans. They are militantly in favour of be kind....but obviously only to those they deem worthy (trans, ethnic minorities, non-jews, non-poshos). They hate inherited wealth as much as the far right hate immigrants. In fact, I think much of the UK wealthy have little idea how much they are despised by certain sectors of society.

The problem is so much of the speech we hear is histrionic. People with the loudest, most insistent voices, who hyper react and over state their case. Nobody wants to say ‘your thinking is tainted by histrionic tendencies, stop talking for a while and try calm logic’. The media feeds off over statement and hysteria. Hence the inherent flaw in what is thrown around in the phrase ‘far right’.

Today (nazism or Stalinism is soooo 20th c), I would recognise far right as the gammons and young lads who try and burn down asylum hotels, people who talk about shooting refugees on the boat crossings (irl I have met these idiots). What I call America First are the unsavoury far right in the US which is concerned (more than Europe) with pursuit of hyper masculinity and control over women's bodies. This is why Andrew Tate has succeeded so well in his branding over the pond.