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Not quite true. The extreme left gave the world AK-47 rifles, Soviet chic, some excellent Bond villains and my own personal favourite: "Slavs squatting in tracksuits". Well worth googling, the last one.

Agree with all that. It was in response to this:

It was tongue in cheek. I wouldn't describe many of those that fought for universal suffrage as being of the "extreme left". If any single group can lay claim to having been pivotal in this in the US, UK and NZ (Who were the first to extend voting rights) then it would be the Quaker movement...

The irony in that quote though was that Russell went much further than most in his beliefs and was imprisoned for his pacifism. That takes a lot of courage.

I don't think it's lack of intelligence. I don't think anyone could claim that David Irving is anything other than extremely clever, likewise the late Eric Hobsbawm was a world-famous scholar but both have/had life-long extremist views. I think with some people it might be that they aren't too...

Old people can be extremist too, you know and middle-aged people are just as capable of voting for the most spurious of reasons whereas plenty of young adults show a remarkable maturity in their views. And I disagree that extremism is for people who can't be bothered to consider other...

I'd agree and would probably do likewise and I reckon you'd do the same if he was an Antifa left-wing extremist. I'd say we're all extremists with at least some of our views and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm staunchly anti-socialist in all its forms and pretty much unwavering about...

And "right extremism" gave us capitalism and you can thank it for being able to have that computer and phone that you use to post onto NSC. Edit - and Emmeline Pankhurst was a Tory who hated what she perceived as Bolshevism.