Timeline for What is meant by the "left" and the "right"?
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 8:40 | comment | added | jringoot | Actually it is not from the national assembly but from the constitutional meetings, in the "salle de manege royal". 11 september 1789 There was a walking referendum, where people were asked if they were in favour of keeping or rejecting certain privileges in the new French state. The first question was: "Should the king retain the right to stop a newly voted law by his veto. Those who are in favour, please place yourself at the right side of the hall, those who are against please go to the left side of the hall" Heads were counted. Essentially the left side was to abolish the privileges. | |
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| May 1, 2013 at 2:25 | comment | added | Anixx | Gay marriage has nothing to do with left-right destinction. It is a US invention that so-called "left" support feminism and gay rights so to divert attention from economic issues and make the "left" inappropriate for normal people. In the USSR homosexualism was punished by a term in prison. | |
| Dec 10, 2012 at 19:44 | comment | added | Sven Clement | Imho this has been dealt with in the last paragraph where I exactly explain what you state in your comment… | |
| Dec 10, 2012 at 11:19 | vote | accept | Graham Wager | ||
| Dec 10, 2012 at 8:42 | comment | added | StasM | Note that "progressive" is no more definitive then "left", and "conservative" adds little more than "right" unless applied to specific question (i.e. gay marriage or raising taxes) but in these questions the same person can be conservative and not conservative at the same time. | |
| Dec 5, 2012 at 13:35 | comment | added | Lennart Regebro | @cls: No sorry, I was thinking of the political compass, not the Nolan Chart. The Nolan Chart is OK. It actually has two dimensions. | |
| Dec 5, 2012 at 13:32 | comment | added | Lennart Regebro | @cls: And two dimensions is twice as good as one, but since once dimension is near useless.... :-) The Nolan chart also is very bad because it's still based on the concepts of left and right, which mean nothing. So in fact it only really has one dimension as opposed to zero. Which of course can be claimed to be infinitely better. ;-) | |
| Dec 4, 2012 at 22:24 | comment | added | clstaudt | Therefore, the Nolan Chart is popular among libertarians. The chart tries to characterize political positions on a two-axis model, one axis being "social authoritarian vs libertarian", the other "economically left vs right". | |
| Dec 4, 2012 at 22:17 | history | answered | Sven Clement | CC BY-SA 3.0 |