Liberal Forum

Contemporary political theory seems to have the political spectrum as a single line. The left reaches all the way to radical communism. The right reaches all the way to radical fascism. There is a problem with this. It has become something in political science called horseshoe theory. The fact is that both fascism and communism are mostly one in the same. Therefore the spectrum is not a straight line but converges on the ends like a horseshoe. Both communism and fascism are dictatorships that rely on socialist policies that come from extremely authoritative governments.. Therefore most of the radicals are expressing the same beliefs. Perhaps the history of the USSR and Nazi Germany have skewed the spectrum. Is there really any difference between the radicals?