> Khemer Rouge, Gulags in USSR, The Great Leap and Cultural Revolution in China I agree these groups are radical left (Communist) and did horrible, horrible th

> Khemer Rouge, Gulags in USSR, The Great Leap and Cultural Revolution in China I agree these groups are radical left (Communist) and did horrible, horrible things. However, I don't think they are examples in this case: 1) I was talking only about some specific problems as characteristic of the right wing: nationalism, xenophobia, and religious prejudice. The Communists were anti-nationalist; a core tenant was internationalism, effectively erasing national borders for their movement (their anthem was The Internationale[1]), incompatible with xenophobia. Secularism, or an outright rejection of religion, was another principle, IIRC. 2) I was referring more to current parties in democracies (though I did bring up the Italian fascists as an example). So I agree, the radical left can be just as dangerous as the radical right - in fact I agree with many who think the political spectrum is more of a O shape, with the extremes closer to each other than to the center. But in my comment above I was speaking about the characteristics of the current mainstream-to-far (not extreme) right. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale