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Liberals regard these as opposites of left and right, though conservatives agree with [[Hannah Arendt]] that they belong at the same end of the [[political spectrum]].

Liberals regard these as opposites of left and right, though conservatives agree with [[Hannah Arendt]] that they belong at the same end of the [[political spectrum]].

*Communism redefined the political spectrum; first falsely attaching Nazism to [[capitalism]], and later to [[fascism]], to fit its [[propaganda]] needs, Communism always placed socialist Nazism on the [[far right]], opposite socialist Communism on the [[far left]].  This Communist classification has become fixed in Western thought, with Communism on the left, [[liberal democracies]] and their left and right parties in the middle, and Nazism and other forms of fascism on the right. Besançon concludes that the correct classification, one proposed by Hannah Arendt earlier, groups the two totalitarian regimes of Communism and Nazism at one end, places liberal regimes in the middle, and groups [[authoritarian]] regimes at the other extreme.<ref name=twinevils/>

*Communism redefined the political spectrum; first falsely attaching Nazism to [[capitalism]], and later to [[fascism]], to fit its [[propaganda]] needs, Communism always placed socialist Nazism on the [[far right]], opposite socialist Communism on the [[far left]].  This Communist classification has become fixed in Western thought, with Communism on the left, [[liberal democracy|liberal democracies]] and their left and right parties in the middle, and Nazism and other forms of fascism on the right. Besançon concludes that the correct classification, one proposed by Hannah Arendt earlier, groups the two totalitarian regimes of Communism and Nazism at one end, places liberal regimes in the middle, and groups [[authoritarian]] regimes at the other extreme.<ref name=twinevils/>

==See also==

==See also==