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Originally Posted by White Fox
I don't see how this is circular logic. The two terms are not just defined as opposites, their are ideological opposites, even though a government can support some both, but only in different aspects of the economy. If the two terms were just defined as opposites, then you could an argument based on circular logic. I think a good example of this is Communism and Fascism. The only argument that they're different is that they're opposites, or that they disliked one another.
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Communism and fascism are also opposites due to their reasoning. Even though the results were shockingly similar (for communism this was due to the impossibility of the ideals, for fascism- well, they succeeded in as far as putting their ideals to use).
My point is that you can place things on scales in so many different dimensions as to make no scale useful when attempting to compare ideologies holistically.
PI essentially claims that a scale I brought up is invalid... not due to anything about the dimension I used... but because it does not line up perfectly with the scales he prefers.
I'm pointing out the flaws of quantitative comparison of ideology, not any particular ieology.