Originally Posted by Goofle

That's the problem with the terms right and left wing. As far as I understand it, the two should really only be used in terms of economics but not everybody sees it that way. So for me, far-right is basically no government. Far-left is basically a completely government controlled economy.

I guess the terms have come to mean quite a lot more so it doesn't really work. Regardless, the Nazis were definitely more socialist than free-market capitalist. Therefore more left wing economically.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.