Comments by "" (@jboss1073) on "Was Nazism Right Wing or Left Wing? An Answer From History" video.

Left and right did not come from the French revolution. Only the names did, not the positions. Those two positions are natural: it's freedom versus being told what to do. Totalitarian Dictatorships are about telling people what to do, not about freedom. Hence they are left-wing, not right-wing.
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@metatronyt You just admitted that mustache guy was leftist.
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@GerdLPluu Everyone agrees that now that Chevron deference is no more, the US is more libertarian, not less. Whatever you want to call them, whatever names you want to use, the truth is, everyone recognizes two political extremes: no background/government laws and only voluntary contracts on one end (usually called anarcho-capitalist Libertarian) in one extreme, and dictatorial totalitarianism in the other extreme. From this point-of-view, "freedom" is not a semantically varying word. Its meaning is tied to voluntary contracts. The US was created for a moral people, which excluded the behaviors you misconstrue as freedoms, such as joining a union or behaving immorally according to the mores of the society. All this has already been firmly defined by Hoppe. There is such a thing as objective freedom: only the people closest to a decision having a say over that decision. That turns out to be voluntary contracts in our human reality. The other extreme is someone far away controlling your behavior over here. That turns out to be dictatorial totalitarianism. This video is simply word-play as is usual for the left to employ these tactics. No one on the Libertarian side would argue this - ask yourself why. To us it is clear you are word manipulators. I have attempted to show you the logic. It's a structural difference between the two political extremes, and it has to do with nearness of decision.
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@NoNumbersAtTheEnding The underlying foundation you're missing is government control. That is leftism, no matter the form. No government control is Libertarianism. Those are the two political extremes. Play with words all you want but you can't find ideas more extreme than those, hence they define the spectrum.
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"Effectively, the individual had no actual property rights. " Hence, it was left-wing.
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@vladimircharvat7331 It's not stupid, it's logical. On one political extreme there is the ability to make decisions by those closest to it: voluntary contracts, ancap libertarianism. On the other extreme there is no such ability, as everyone is governed by a far-away centralized bureaucracy: dictatorial totalitarianism. It doesn't matter which words you sue. Left and right are just shorthand words for those two objective political extremes.
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@vladimircharvat7331 What you said is not an argument. If what I said were wrong, someone would be able to refute it. This video did not do that. With the same ease you say "the world is not binary" I can say "the world is binary" so it is not an argument. It is also self-contradictory. Is the fact that the world is not binary a binary question? According to you it would not be, in which case it would both be binary and not be binary at the same time. That is a logical contradiction. Hence the world is actually binary in every question.
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@jeanacremann2629 "back in the day, american liberalism/libertarianism was (and is) considered left wing in Europe, at least until either 45 or the sixties (since the proper right anf true far-right died, at least in terms of parties)." How it "was considered" by social butterflies doesn't matter. What was their argument - care to show it? I bet it was fallacious, in which case they were simply mistaken. In other words Libertarianism was never in the Left, no matter what social butterflies think.
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@schmon8409 No, that is not what I'm saying. It doesn't matter which is left or right. The point is there are two extremes, and you cannot refute that.
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@VeteranVandal "as we understand left and right came from the French revolution indeed." Only for people who think in a nominalist way like you. Then I agree. For essentialists, no. For essentialists, left is bigger state, right is smaller state. Only the left wants to blurry these lines.
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@VeteranVandal "the state has to have the monopoly of force for either capitalism or socialist states, regardless where you are in that process. Capitalism NEEDS the state." Wrong, capitalism is "voluntaryism" or "anarcho-capitalist libertarianism" and hence it needs the state NOT TO EXIST in order for capitalism/voluntaryism to truly exist.
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@kaankanca4634 Yes. WEF is leftist - they want centralized control and no individual liberties - just like the mustache guy. Both are leftists.
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Elie Wiesel had to choose between those two and he declined the gulag. He went with the not-sees. He says so in his own book.
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@joespinelli5421 Stop lying, right in his book he explains he left with the Nazis before the Soviets arrived. Here is a summary: "While he is in the hospital recovering, the rumor of the approaching Russian army gives him new hope. But the Germans decide to evacuate the camp before the Russians can arrive. Thinking that the Jews in the infirmary will be put to death prior to the evacuation, Eliezer and his father choose to be evacuated with the others. After the war, Eliezer learns that they made the wrong decision—those who remained in the infirmary were freed by the Russians a few days later. With his injured foot bleeding into the snow, Eliezer joins the rest of the prisoners. " "Why would the Nazis send him to a Gulag in 1944?" No one said that, you're just utterly confused. "Your comment makes no sense." Read his book. He chose the Nazis over the Soviets. My point is done here.
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@joespinelli5421 If the Soviets saw him there when they got to the camp where he was which they were approaching, whatever the Soviets would have done to him, he preferred his faith with the Nazis. That's my point.
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@SlavaUkraini2025-n3n The US calls "football" a sport where they use their hands to grab an egg. They call the ancient Britons "Celtic Britons" when the Britons were never called Celts. They call graphite "lead". They think the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. Americans are extremely ignorant about facts and history.
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