You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the Left - read OP

Unless Chomsky was 'cancelled' for domestically abusing his wife I still don't see the connection.

I guess nobody around here even knows if or what he was 'cancelled' over so its a non starter.

The far-left want public rental housing for all, they don't want people to own houses, they want all people to be tenants of the State.

Most Irish people reject that vision.

I think it's a reference to horeshoe politics.

no country has ever been communist.

Communism is a stateless, moneyless, classless society.

Tell me which country has fit that definition?

You are perhaps talking about countries that were run by strongmen/dictator types?

btw, no one is "clamouring" to have a dictator in charge of society

horseshoe theory is bunk

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This old chessnut.

They may jot have achieved communism but they gave it a bloody good go. Murdering their way to promised land outlined by Marx and Engels.

It's telling that every negative element of historical far left regimes is ignored or assigned as actually having been far right somehow.

You spoke about the far left being all about some sort of utopian ideology with unicorns and rainbows and described hyper capitalism as far right somehow. The far right and far left in reality are mirrors of each other in practice.

Facts. Not nonsense.

An alien concept to somebody to thinks far left ideology = nice houses and better wages.

Cite one example of a far left regime resulting in anything you outlined.

I can cite multiple far left regimes that descended into ruthless murder and dehumanisation, no freedom of expression, no room for progressive ideology, all over pure misery.

Those are the facts of far left ideology in practice.

Brilliant quote.

We see the authoritarian tendancies of the left these days in cancel culture and the overarching need to silence dissent.

Anything that isn't far left is viewed as far right by some people.

Note my added italics below:

PBP’s housing policy is based on a simple premise that everyone in our society requires a decent and secure place to live, irrespective of their income. Housing should be treated as a universal public service the same as health and education. Based on the experience of previous generations and internationally, the most effective way to deliver a decent secure home, based on need, is through public housing.

Modern environmentally friendly building techniques, innovative design with occupants at its heart, flexible living spaces to accommodate changing family-sizes are all evident in public housing examples across Europe – such as the award winning design of Norwich City Council housing and the New Municipal Dwellings programme in Vienna. We can learn from this best practice.

Here we set out our key policy proposals and in the sections below we go into more detail on how we can achieve a housing system on the island of Ireland that provides safe, decent and secure housing for all:

• Renew and revitalise public home building on public land – keep existing public land in public ownership
• Fund and empower local government and the Northern Irish Housing Executive to increase their stock of public housing and public land
• Abolish the income threshold limits to make public housing available to more people on a broad range of incomes with rents set at a percentage of take home pay
• Establish a scheme that enables public housing tenants to move between and within developments based on their accommodation requirements at different life stages
• Establish a system of housing planning and construction that ensures adequate supply for those with particular housing needs such as those with a disability, those fleeing war or abuse.
• Provide for an affordable purchase scheme within the public housing system where the unit can only be sold back to the local authority or public housing body from which it was purchased
• Create and fund a state building company to retrofit and refurbish all public homes so that they meet new energy efficiency standards – create a system of training and recruitment delivered through the state building company and under local authority or public housing bodies
• Establish greater controls in the building industry including building standards, rights for construction workers and certification
• Reform planning to ensure democratic engagement by communities in sustainable development – make it a statutory requirement that community amenities including educational, transport, economic, green space and civic/cultural centres be mandated and front loaded in all new development – enforce Passivhaus and design quality standards – all development must have regard to the challenges of climate change and higher density living
• Establish a new Rental Board that will represent all tenants (public and private) – extend security of tenure and maintenance/dwelling standard rights for tenants and introduce a system of rent setting and control – encourage tenant unionisation – extend tenancy rights to all tenants including students
• Establish an Independent National Traveller Housing Agency to oversee the delivery of culturally appropriate Traveller accommodation
• End corporatisation of housing system – bring the dwellings owned by corporate landlords into public ownership – revoke all legislation that allows vulture funds, REITs, build to rent corporate landlords and other special purpose vehicles to operate in the Irish housing market.
• Establish and maintain registers of vacant and /or derelict sites and unused dwellings and give powers to local authorities and public housing bodies to enforce penalties and compulsory purchase orders
• Establish landlord, land value, speculation and windfall taxes – introduce a static income tax on income earned from property rental in the private residential market

Lots of people on this site claim to be centrist but are definitely not centrist in anyway at all.

So no opinion of your own. I guess were done here - I'm not one to waste my energy argueing with memes.