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Although I agree that both parties are more the same than they are different, your spectrum of government is confused. At the extreme left is going to be totalitarianism and at the extreme right is going to be no government, or sometimes called anarchy. Whys is communism not at the left? It is not at the left because under communism there is no government. For instance, ask a Russian what it was like to live under communism. They will tell you that they did not live under communism. They lived under socialism. The difference is that in the Soviet Union, socialism was the goal.
Communism is a form of anarchy. It is an anarchy of private property. Nobody owns the means of production. Interestingly, if one studies pure capitalism, there is also a strong tendency towards anarchy, except that this form of anarchy is government anarchy. It is freedom to have property without unnecessary government intervention.
Communism generally tries to be accomplished ironically enough with more government (the exact thing that they are trying to get rid of). This is not only socialism for the state, but the plan is to have international socialism. On the other hand, fascism is socialism, but it is national socialism as opposed to international socialism. However, BOTH are totalitarian. That is why BOTH belong at the left. International socialism is just slightly to the left of fascism.
In the middle of the road would be Constitutionalism which is the left ended spectrum of Libertarianism. Extreme right Libertarianism is anarcho-capitalism.
So, when the democrats call the republicans fascists and the republicans call the democrats communists, guess what? They are BOTH RIGHT!!! They are both totalitarian and they are both socialist. They differ only by degree and they are not fundamentally different. We do NOT have true "left" and "right" parties but two extreme left parties to choose from.
Oh, by the way, Lincoln sold out the founding father's dream of freedom and liberty. Don't believe me? Well, then you have been taught well and socialized well. Read Marx's ten planks of communism again. Lincoln implemented 9 of the 10. Lincoln didn't slaughter as many americans as did Lenin or Hitler, but he is up there. Lincoln could not be more different than the founding fathers. The former did not believe in the principle of Independence whereas the latter did.
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