[OT] Re: What about the UN? - Longish

> Owen Glover writes:

Just to step into this a bit late, The distinctions between "left wing" and
"right wing" derive from some old French parliament.

The chamber was one of those wishy-washy semi-circular affairs
(not like the Houses of Parliament where gentlemen line up as Government and
Opposition in order to shout "bollocks" at each other... much better). To the
left of the chamber sat the reformers, progressives and liberals, mostly
representing the middle classes, while to the right sat the conservatives and
reactionaries representing the aristocracy. Unfortunately no one was
representing the lower classes who duly revolted and brought out the
guilotines.

It's a funny way of classifying politics, but Nazis and Fascists absolutely
belong on the right wing, anarchists to the left.