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Old 01-18-11, 08:54 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by Schroeder View Post
Left and right over here are not only defined by the economical perspective. There is far more to it. The standpoint towards immigration, traditions, values and so on do play a big role in it as well and that makes Nazism far right.


The 1axis left-right scheme is more defined by social values.
To add some more confusion, we also exchange the words 'liberal' and 'libertarian' - not 100% comparible though.
Our european liberals (US: libertarians) define themselves just as centrist - neither right nor left.
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