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Entry: Heil Hillary? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/heil_hillary#15418 Post contents: There is more or less a left-right spectrum. It's just that the modern American experience does not embrace the entire spectrum, since it is narrowly focused on economic models. From the socialist perspective, "capitalism" is "on the right". However, from the perspective of the ancien regime, capitalism is equivalent to liberalism, and is therefore a revolutionary movement of the left. Thus, Italian Fascism saw itself opposed to liberal capitalism, from the right, not from the left. The Fascist economic model was based on Catholic social teaching, particularly as expounded in Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. This is NOT socialism; to some careless observers, it may look like socialism, because they lack the categories to describe it. Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno, written to commenorate Leo's enccyclical, notes this mistake and makes an effort to correct it. Do not forget that socialism, in its origin, was more than an economic system -- it embraced atheistism and humanism, abhorrent ideas to the Right. Similarly for capitalism ... it is more than an economic system since it includes the ideology of liberalism. As long as American conservatives are narrowly concerned with economic models and are promoters of capitalism, they will continue to reap more and more liberalism, the ideology of capitalism. If this is not obvious by now, it never will be. Thus the disarray on the right, which can no longer even define itself properly. Sent at: 2008 05 16