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Originally Posted by Eurosceptic Atlanticist
The BNP are not right wing.
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They are generally refered to as far right. If you want to rewrite the political lexicon to make rightwing individualist, small gov't and all things good and bright be my guest but I'm not using your usage.
Collectivism and big gov't have often been used by the right since the ultraconservatives sat on the rightin the French constituent and national assemblies.
In fact that is really the perfect indication that such things and their opposites are on both sides. In the French revolution you have collectivist, authoritarian rightists like some ultraconservatives and you had the Jacobins who were the same on the left and on the centre right you had the individualist and federalist Girondins and you had the decentralist and libertarian Enrages on the left who believed in the autonomy of directly democratic Paris sections.