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No... the point I am trying to make is that whether a position can be described as "radical" depends on the larger social and political context. Supporting communism was a radical position in Russia in 1915, but in 1925 it was mainstream. Supporting the monarchy was a mainstream position in France in 1785, but in 1793 it was dangerously radical. You can't just arrange every political ideology that's ever been imagined on a chart and then declare them "radical" or "mainstream" simply based on how far away from the center of the chart they are, because what's mainstream (and how far away away from that you can drift without being seen as an extremist) depends on the larger sociopolitical milieu.
I suppose we disagree then.
I think the case can be made that certain political ideologies are radical regardless of whether the society at large considers them radical or not.
How else do we distinguish what is truly radical and what is not then?