> But to an casual observer, what makes a rally a "nazi rally"?
A combination of Nazi-style iconography and right wing/reactionary rhetoric. I've yet to see a 'left wing rally' in the US but I suppose that could take in center-left rallies by politicians like Bernie Sanders. And people do label such events as a bunch of commies.
I'm not sure what you have in mind with 'Bolshevik rallies'. I can't think of anything visually distinctive about historical examples, and when I think of Communist party events I think of very formal affairs in auditoriums as you might see from China or North Korea. I'm having trouble imagining an American equivalent.
> You don't see the problem here? You just equated "right wing authoritarianism" with "nazis" and "fascism". What does "right wing authoritarianism" mean, anyways?
If you're struggling with very common political theory terms used in a wholly conventional way, perhaps you should consult a dictionary instead of asking me to stand in for one.
>A combination of Nazi-style iconography and right wing/reactionary rhetoric
So a rally with people raising their fists[1] and arguing for state expropriation and/or redistribution would be a "communist rally"?
>And people do label such events as a bunch of commies.
And you think that's a fair label?
>If you're struggling with very common political theory terms used in a wholly conventional way, perhaps you should consult a dictionary instead of asking me to stand in for one.
Sounds like you're trying to dodge the issue, which is that politics lies on a spectrum and there isn't an obvious point between "wants more funding for cops and tighter border control" and "wants to round up and kill a particular ethnic group" that defines "right wing authoritarianism". Even if you were somehow able to come up with a principled definition, I doubt that it's something that most people would agree with, which means practically speaking all these phrases essentially boil down to "people with politics that I find too extreme".
A combination of Nazi-style iconography and right wing/reactionary rhetoric. I've yet to see a 'left wing rally' in the US but I suppose that could take in center-left rallies by politicians like Bernie Sanders. And people do label such events as a bunch of commies.
I'm not sure what you have in mind with 'Bolshevik rallies'. I can't think of anything visually distinctive about historical examples, and when I think of Communist party events I think of very formal affairs in auditoriums as you might see from China or North Korea. I'm having trouble imagining an American equivalent.
> You don't see the problem here? You just equated "right wing authoritarianism" with "nazis" and "fascism". What does "right wing authoritarianism" mean, anyways?
If you're struggling with very common political theory terms used in a wholly conventional way, perhaps you should consult a dictionary instead of asking me to stand in for one.