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briandmyers  ·  4128 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Did Conservatives Get This Radical?

Those meanings change over time, though!

    Historically, radicalism has referred exclusively to the "radical left", under the single category of far-left politics, rarely incorporating far-right politics though these may have revolutionary elements; the prominent exception is in the United States where some consider radicalism to include both political extremes of the radical left and the "radical right".

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_radicalism