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  • It’s an insult used by liberals to punch left. Because liberals, as a rule, don’t really read history or politics with any depth, they don’t use it consistently. Sometimes it is conflated with communist. Sometimes they throw it at liberals that are just a bit less racist and xenophobic than them.

    Originally it meant communists who supported the 1956 invasion of Hungary, and was used by British communists to split up their own parties on the issue.



  • “Extremism” is a term that relieves its user of making any value judgments on the political questions at hand. A thought-terminating cliché that shovels unearned acceptance on the status quo and an unearned rejection of everything else.

    A particularly funny part of it is that the early architects of thst status quo would hsve counted as extremists.



  • Maybe if “basic history” means “literally never read a book about it by a historian”. Your description is a debunked fringe theory that was only ever entertained by a single serious historian and he was a big Cold Warrior that embarrassed himself.

    You should begin your education by reading Wheatcroft and Davies.