Page 2698 - Week 12 - Thursday, 16 November 1989

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wing extremism in history would be Lenin's socialism, and the example of right-wing extremism would be Hitler and his party. I think we would do well to look at the fact that that is right-wing socialism. The suggestion that they are at two ends of a pole is nonsense. They are one and the same, and I have absolutely no adherence whatsoever to any form of extreme socialism.

Mr Duby: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; for Mr Stevenson to equate Nazism and communism is the same as saying that he is a democrat, for goodness sake.

MR SPEAKER: That is not a point of order. That is a frivolous comment.

MR STEVENSON: This is a point that obviously Mr Duby is not aware of and many other people are not aware of, but it should be made known, because when Mr Duby calls someone an extreme right-winger what he is saying, in fact, is that he is a rotten socialist, an extremist, and I would agree, but first of all one would have to have social principles. In the debate yesterday the point was not made that the Z in Nazi, of course, stands for socialism. Perhaps this is something we can remember in the future.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Assembly adjourned at 5.53 pm until Tuesday, 21 November 1989, at 2.30 pm

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