Right Wing / Far Right

Political Science, 1906

Anyone who is doubtful the communist utopia can be achieved or thinks it would be better not to break Western civilisation right now.

Related to the French Revolution (again), the subjective/relative phrase “far” was first discussed in Methodist publications which described the “extreme left” as radical socialists, and the “far right” as reactionary parties. Apparently, it’s all due to sexual repression, according to Wilhelm Reich in “The Mass Psychology of Fascism” (1933).

• https://oed.com/view/Entry/68130#eid297125578
• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=far+right
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=far+right
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism