Timeline for What is meant by the "left" and the "right"?
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| Apr 9, 2023 at 17:12 | comment | added | v.oddou | It's not the "change" that makes a left. It's the progressism toward enlightment concepts. Change to go back to royalism, or some fantasy imperial age, like a reich, is rightist by definition of conservatism. Center/Right is statu quo, right is a bit back, extreme right is back to pre-revolution eras; or even fantasized good old something (usually very vertical glorious something). | |
| Apr 7, 2023 at 14:42 | comment | added | Corbin | @user4012: Orwell was a lifelong leftist. Famously, he went to Europe to shoot fascists. His novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were descriptions of totalitarianism and right-wing rhetoric respectively. One of Orwell's lessons might be appropriate for you: Don't believe governments when they describe themselves! | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 22:39 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @user4012 I don't know why you'd suggest looking at right-wing places to find out what happens in left-wing places. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 1:34 | comment | added | user4012 | @user253751 - you keep using that word, but i don't think it means what you think it means. If you believe left is for equality, you should go read Orwell's 1984, followed by a set of reputable acounts by people who lived in USSR, Venezuela etc.... Some animals... well are just more equal than others. In a very big way, far surpassing the worst Gini coefficient in the market economy, in practice. After all, infinity is always bigger than even 1000. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 19:23 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @user4012 which is consistent with the left=equality, right=strong hierarchy view. Surely if they ever get a market they will find out markets are not as equal as they would like. | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 16:58 | history | edited | Bradley Wilson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2012 at 2:01 | comment | added | Sven Clement | There is a reason why I reflected mostly on the historical nature of the terms and did not try to make statements about the current situation which is much more complex ;) | |
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| Dec 5, 2012 at 12:19 | comment | added | user4012 | This is even more complicated. In russia, the pro-market people are "left" and hardline pro-communist people are "right". | |
| Dec 4, 2012 at 22:39 | history | answered | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |