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To give a cynical answer, a "far-right extremist" is anyone who did something bad and can be associated in some way with the politics of opponents of the (equally loosely and uselessly labeled) "left". In other words, it's a loose slur not used in a precise way and lacking any formal definition.

A prime example of that is the nutcase who attacked Gabrielle Giffords in 2007. Left wing sources immediately labeled him "right wing" and aidded by the friends in mass media successfully tarred Republicans and specifically Sarah Palin with it (even putting that into Wikipedia). Of course, anyone who bothered actually looking at the fact would have noted immediately that the attacker held radical left political views, inasmuch as his mess of "views" can even be characterized.

Then of course we have the constant accusations that libertarians (you know, people whose political philosophy is based on non-violence) are "far right extremists". Example from the very top of the left: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/01/dccc-cato-institute-is-right-wing-extremist-group-024380.

More examples are easy to Google.

Another, more out-there example, is of course someone calling Julian Assange (the Wikileaks guy) a right wing extremist. (reasoning: he praised Pauls and apparently dared not protesting taxes too much and didn't think that anti-abortion position is pure evil). So apparently simply not vitriolically hating libertarians makes you a far right extremist. Q.E.D.

In reality, "left" and "right" in general are oversimplified concepts with very little relation to actual political dynamics.

To address your later paragraphs:

• Fascism was in some ways partially offshoot of Socialism (and thus more left than right) - its father Mussolini used to be a Socialist before deciding on a new movement that was neither right nor left. To steal a Mussolini quote from my own earlier answer (quite relevant to your question):

  fascism ... is a movement that would strike "against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left". - Benito Mussolini in 1919

• Nazism comes from "Nazi" party, whose official name was "NSDAP" - "National-Socialist German workers party". Details in this answer.

• Racism as a defining thing of the "right" is again an imagination of the left (Soviet Union was far more racist than the most racist KKK area. Che Guevara was a racist. I can continue this list indefinitely).

To give a cynical answer, a "far-right extremist" is anyone who did something bad and can be associated in some way with the politics of opponents of the (equally loosely and uselessly labeled) "left". In other words, it's a loose slur not used in a precise way and lacking any formal definition.

A prime example of that is the nutcase who attacked Gabrielle Giffords in 2007. Left wing sources immediately labeled him "right wing" and aidded by the friends in mass media successfully tarred Republicans and specifically Sarah Palin with it (even putting that into Wikipedia). Of course, anyone who bothered actually looking at the fact would have noted immediately that the attacker held radical left political views, inasmuch as his mess of "views" can even be characterized.

Then of course we have the constant accusations that libertarians (you know, people whose political philosophy is based on non-violence) are "far right extremists". Example from the very top of the left: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/01/dccc-cato-institute-is-right-wing-extremist-group-024380.

More examples are easy to Google.

Another, more out-there example, is of course someone calling Julian Assange (the Wikileaks guy) a right wing extremist. (reasoning: he praised Pauls and apparently dared not protesting taxes too much and didn't think that anti-abortion position is pure evil). So apparently simply not vitriolically hating libertarians makes you a far right extremist. Q.E.D.

In reality, "left" and "right" in general are oversimplified concepts with very little relation to actual political dynamics.

To address your later paragraphs:

• Fascism was in some ways partially offshoot of Socialism (and thus more left than right) - its father Mussolini used to be a Socialist before deciding on a new movement that was neither right nor left. To steal a Mussolini quote from my own earlier answer (quite relevant to your question):

  fascism ... is a movement that would strike "against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left". - Benito Mussolini in 1919

• Nazism comes from "Nazi" party, whose official name was "NSDAP" - "National-Socialist German workers party". Details in this answer.

• Racism as a defining thing of the "right" is again an imagination of the left (Soviet Union was far more racist than the most racist KKK area. Che Guevara was a racist. I can continue this list indefinitely).

To give a cynical answer, a "far-right extremist" is anyone who did something bad and can be associated in some way with the politics of opponents of the (equally loosely and uselessly labeled) "left".

A prime example of that is the nutcase who attacked Gabrielle Giffords in 2007. Left wing sources immediately labeled him "right wing" and aidded by the friends in mass media successfully tarred Republicans and specifically Sarah Palin with it (even putting that into Wikipedia). Of course, anyone who bothered actually looking at the fact would have noted immediately that the attacker held radical left political views, inasmuch as his mess of "views" can even be characterized.

Then of course we have the constant accusations that libertarians (you know, people whose political philosophy is based on non-violence) are "far right extremists". Example from the very top of the left: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/01/dccc-cato-institute-is-right-wing-extremist-group-024380.

More examples are easy to Google.

Another, more out-there example, is of course someone calling Julian Assange (the Wikileaks guy) a right wing extremist. (reasoning: he praised Pauls and apparently dared not protesting taxes too much and didn't think that anti-abortion position is pure evil). So apparently simply not vitriolically hating libertarians makes you a far right extremist. Q.E.D.

In reality, "left" and "right" in general are oversimplified concepts with very little relation to actual political dynamics.

To address your later paragraphs:

• Fascism was in some ways partially offshoot of Socialism (and thus more left than right) - its father Mussolini used to be a Socialist before deciding on a new movement that was neither right nor left. To steal a Mussolini quote from my own earlier answer (quite relevant to your question):

  fascism ... is a movement that would strike "against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left". - Benito Mussolini in 1919

• Nazism comes from "Nazi" party, whose official name was "NSDAP" - "National-Socialist German workers party". Details in this answer.

• Racism as a defining thing of the "right" is again an imagination of the left (Soviet Union was far more racist than the most racist KKK area. Che Guevara was a racist. I can continue this list indefinitely).

To give a cynical answer, a "far-right extremist" is anyone who did something bad and can be associated in some way with the politics of opponents of the (equally loosely and uselessly labeled) "left". In other words, it's a loose slur not used in a precise way and lacking any formal definition.

A prime example of that is the nutcase who attacked Gabrielle Giffords in 2007. Left wing sources immediately labeled him "right wing" and aidded by the friends in mass media successfully tarred Republicans and specifically Sarah Palin with it (even putting that into Wikipedia). Of course, anyone who bothered actually looking at the fact would have noted immediately that the attacker held radical left political views, inasmuch as his mess of "views" can even be characterized.

Then of course we have the constant accusations that libertarians (you know, people whose political philosophy is based on non-violence) are "far right extremists". Example from the very top of the left: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/01/dccc-cato-institute-is-right-wing-extremist-group-024380.

More examples are easy to Google.

Another, more out-there example, is of course someone calling Julian Assange (the Wikileaks guy) a right wing extremist. (reasoning: he praised Pauls and apparently dared not protesting taxes too much and didn't think that anti-abortion position is pure evil). So apparently simply not vitriolically hating libertarians makes you a far right extremist. Q.E.D.

In reality, "left" and "right" in general are oversimplified concepts with very little relation to actual political dynamics.

To address your later paragraphs:

• Fascism was in some ways partially offshoot of Socialism (and thus more left than right) - its father Mussolini used to be a Socialist before deciding on a new movement that was neither right nor left. To steal a Mussolini quote from my own earlier answer (quite relevant to your question):

  fascism ... is a movement that would strike "against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left". - Benito Mussolini in 1919

• Nazism comes from "Nazi" party, whose official name was "NSDAP" - "National-Socialist German workers party". Details in this answer.

• Racism as a defining thing of the "right" is again an imagination of the left (Soviet Union was far more racist than the most racist KKK area. Che Guevara was a racist. I can continue this list indefinitely).

To give a cynical answer, a "far-right extremist" is anyone who did something bad and can be associated in some way with the politics of opponents of the (equally loosely and uselessly labeled) "left".

A prime example of that is the nutcase who attacked Gabrielle Giffords in 2007. Left wing sources immediately labeled him "right wing" and aidded by the friends in mass media successfully tarred Republicans and specifically Sarah Palin with it (even putting that into Wikipedia). Of course, anyone who bothered actually looking at the fact would have noted immediately that the attacker held radical left political views, inasmuch as his mess of "views" can even be characterized.

Then of course we have the constant accusations that libertarians (you know, people whose political philosophy is based on non-violence) are "far right extremists". Example from the very top of the left: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/01/dccc-cato-institute-is-right-wing-extremist-group-024380

Another, more out-there example, is of course someone calling Julian Assange (the Wikileaks guy) a right wing extremist. (reasoning: he praised Pauls and apparently dared not protesting taxes too much and didn't think that anti-abortion position is pure evil). So apparently simply not vitriolically hating libertarians makes you a far right extremist. Q.E.D.

In reality, "left" and "right" in general are oversimplified concepts with very little relation to actual political dynamics.

To address your later paragraphs:

• Fascism was in some ways partially offshoot of Socialism (and thus more left than right) - its father Mussolini used to be a Socialist before deciding on a new movement that was neither right nor left. To steal a Mussolini quote from my own earlier answer (quite relevant to your question):

  fascism ... is a movement that would strike "against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left". - Benito Mussolini in 1919

• Nazism comes from "Nazi" party, whose official name was "NSDAP" - "National-Socialist German workers party". Details in this answer.

• Racism as a defining thing of the "right" is again an imagination of the left (Soviet Union was far more racist than the most racist KKK area. Che Guevara was a racist. I can continue this list indefinitely).

To give a cynical answer, a "far-right extremist" is anyone who did something bad and can be associated in some way with the politics of opponents of the (equally loosely and uselessly labeled) "left".

A prime example of that is the nutcase who attacked Gabrielle Giffords in 2007. Left wing sources immediately labeled him "right wing" and aidded by the friends in mass media successfully tarred Republicans and specifically Sarah Palin with it (even putting that into Wikipedia). Of course, anyone who bothered actually looking at the fact would have noted immediately that the attacker held radical left political views, inasmuch as his mess of "views" can even be characterized.

Then of course we have the constant accusations that libertarians (you know, people whose political philosophy is based on non-violence) are "far right extremists". Example from the very top of the left: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/01/dccc-cato-institute-is-right-wing-extremist-group-024380.

More examples are easy to Google.

Another, more out-there example, is of course someone calling Julian Assange (the Wikileaks guy) a right wing extremist. (reasoning: he praised Pauls and apparently dared not protesting taxes too much and didn't think that anti-abortion position is pure evil). So apparently simply not vitriolically hating libertarians makes you a far right extremist. Q.E.D.

In reality, "left" and "right" in general are oversimplified concepts with very little relation to actual political dynamics.

To address your later paragraphs:

• Fascism was in some ways partially offshoot of Socialism (and thus more left than right) - its father Mussolini used to be a Socialist before deciding on a new movement that was neither right nor left. To steal a Mussolini quote from my own earlier answer (quite relevant to your question):

  fascism ... is a movement that would strike "against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left". - Benito Mussolini in 1919

• Nazism comes from "Nazi" party, whose official name was "NSDAP" - "National-Socialist German workers party". Details in this answer.

• Racism as a defining thing of the "right" is again an imagination of the left (Soviet Union was far more racist than the most racist KKK area. Che Guevara was a racist. I can continue this list indefinitely).