How to test where your political views lie on the spectrum!

Recently Harriet Harman in an interview affirmed that she saw Fidel Castro as a hero. Her view is presumably shared by the 69 MPs who signed a motion in Parliament in praise of the Communist hero, - 65 Labour, 2 Plaid Cymru, 1 LibDem and George Galloway. Most of these are known to take left wing stances on other things as well.

They feel that he has made great strides in Health and Education, and above all has withstood the 44 years of US embargo.

The other side of the picture were the death penalties for those who tried to escape the socialist heaven, imprisonment of dissidents, strict controls on the press, imprisonment of homosexuals and a ruined economy which needed years of economic and other aid from Russia. Above all, Castro was prepared with Russia to contemplate a nuclear first strike against the US. In fact what unites those on the far left is an almost pathological hatred of America

He probably did not murder as many of his own citizens as other socialist leaders, - Mao, Stalin, Honecker, and others, but he has all pervading informers, and a repressive regime.

So the Left are not prepared to condemn what under Communist rule is very similar to what happened under the Nazis (National Socialists), even mass liquidation, but use the word Nazi or
Fascist as terms of abuse.

For those who of us who condemn both extremes, including all the horrors of totalitarianism, our view is more even-handed, and you can say that ours is more central in the spectrum of political ideologies.

Is it that the right and left are essentially the same in their extremes, - happy to concentrate power in few hands and to control or deny dissidence for the good of public order, that they are sworn enemies?

If you want to know where you are on the spectrum, ask yourself which you regard as more heinous, the barbarities and terrors of the left or those of the right.