> Even with a cursory understanding of history, the extreme right wing regimes are considered fascist, aka extremely top down.
IMHO the political spectrum has a circular topology where extreme left and extreme right merge into one point. As an illustration, consider Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union:
* Extremely brutal top-down dictatorship.
* Suppression of all dissent by means of secrete police (Gestapo vs NKVD).
* Single party rule (nazi party vs communist party)
* No meaningful elections.
Of course, there were many differences and nuances but the power structure was surprisingly similar.
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Re:Andreessen on Crypto
by techbrobane on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:38AM
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You're describing authoritarianism which is inherently right-wing. Both Hitler and Stalin were anti-democratic right-wingers.
The left-wing has always been anti-authoritarian.
A better comparison would be like Hitler versus Emma Goldman.
Considering the best faith argument here, I’m guessing he’s seeing the “right wing” being pro business as opposed to a pro government “left”, and in that view, business is considered “bottom up”. As you alluded to, though, this ignores a lot of actual historical and political context and seems more driven by punditry shorthand.