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But after traitor got in the Oval Office and gave his henchmen a platform and stirred up their mobs, shouldn't we place anarchy at the far-right politically?
It seems to me that people to the left politically are pulling for governance and policy that enhances the lives of people, and understand that benevolent governing is a desirable addition to society.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,017 posts)I cannot recall one single communist paradise. They all lead to hell on Earth.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)fascists, totalitarians, communists, etc. are left wing extremists in their delusional world.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Both ends of the worm are involved in the process.
Marthe48
(16,690 posts)with a merry-go-round.
Everyone seems to be going around in circles, for sure.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Anarchy is neither left nor right; it opposes all government. If anything, that sounds more like Grover Norquist than Karl Marx.
Marthe48
(16,690 posts)lo, those many years ago.
If the members of the team teaching history didn't get awards, they should have
The Revolution
(763 posts)Those labels come from what side of the room people were literally sitting on during the French revolution.
If you really want to describe the relative political positions of people or parties, you really need at least two axes, maybe more.
struggle4progress
(118,034 posts)If you try to sort out current uses of "left" and "right" in the US, the classification seems to be based on particular issues, without much consistent political philosophy
leftstreet
(36,078 posts)WarGamer
(12,103 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 30, 2021, 03:41 PM - Edit history (1)
Political Ideology is NOT a 2-dimensional left to right line
It's a circle, like a belt... around the front near the belt buckle is the political center.
As you move farther right or left, away from the buckle, around the pockets/hips you reach a point where the ideologies are farthest apart.
But what happens when you keep going farther left or right? Around the back side of the belt the ideologies start to converge until at the 180 degree opposite point of the buckle, extreme ideologies become one in the same.
Marthe48
(16,690 posts)and a good update on what I learned years ago
Duncan Grant
(8,257 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in radical left and right movements as far as government form is concerned tends to be that
-- people on the far right (extreme conservatives) are oriented to support "the establishment" authority (either already established or to be established by them). They want government hierarchical/class based and authoritarian.
-- left wing radicals are oriented to oppose "the establishment". They seek to replace with more "universalist," class-free systems. Those may tend to end up authoritarian, but it's not the powerful need for most on the left that it is on the right.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)But here we are.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)They stand for nothing.