Maybe this is thread drift, but it's started already. Lining up political philosophies along a one-dimensional spectrum as Lonesome EJ quotes it seems to distort the way in which they relate to each other and differ from each other.

To me it makes more sense to see them as in two dimensions. There's a left to right dimension based around issues like economic structures, common ownership, private property, equality, stuff like that. And at right angles to it there's a dimension about authority and freedom.

That gets you away from absurdities such as people saying "Hitler was a vegetarian, who disapproved of private citizens having guns, so vegetarians who in favour of gun control are like Nazis."

Looked at that way it's fairly clear that Nazism is more or less in the middle of the left/right dimension, but way off the chart on authoritarianism.

Actually to really cover the territory you'd ned at least one more dimension for things like green issues, for example.

And you find folk music in all the nooks and crannies of the multiverse, including some really unpleasant ones. I think it's better to save the term "folk nazis" for the real nazis around who are into folk music of some kind. And they really do exist. Not too many on the Mudcat so far, and pray God it stays that way. But at times I get the feeling they are out there in the dark circling and ready to pick off stragglers.