Left versus Right
Politics
Left |
Right |
|
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preffered society type |
anarchy (organic, informal hierarchy, based on personal merits): social-democracy |
hierarchy (imposed, formal, based on servitute / duty / devotion / fear / gratitude / veneration): fascism / "comunism" (stalinism / leninism, authoritharianism), capitalism |
power belongs to the |
community, democracy, people |
authoritarian lider, government (police, army, riot police), church, oligarchy, big corporations |
atitude towards police |
against |
for |
preffered state type |
cultural, inclusive, equally treated individuals, equal rights |
national, exclusive, national majority vs. minorities; defines minorities that are considered inferior, using etnical or anatomical or physiological or religios criteria |
external politics |
alliances, cooperation |
imperialist, domination |
distribution of power |
descentralised, federal, "grass roots", the government and companies are dedicated to the citizen |
centralised, powerful lider, the citizen is dedicated to the government or company |
violence against |
obiects symbols of hierarchical power of the state (Antifa) or formal hierarchy of any kind: political (civil disobedience), economical (distruction of shops and businesses), colonial (statues, history revisionism to account for the colony's opinion), symbols revisionism to get them in accordance with the historical truth (dark skin Jesus) |
inferior classes: workers, women, lgbtq+, imigrants, the poor, minorities in general (fascism / nationalism (nazism) / rasism homofoby) - atacks people (imigrants, people belonging to other ethnic, rasial, sexual, religious groups) |
regulations to protect the population and the environment (policing of entities in power: political and economical economical enitites) |
yes |
no |
regulations, other than those above (regulation of intimate life, abortion - policing of population) |
no |
yes |
promoted social structure |
extended family, community: "together we are strong" |
individual, traditional nuclear family, fragmented community: "divide et impera" |
positive: personal freedoms, that does not include rights over other people, anarchic |
negative: freedoms of one over another, hierarchic (the right to own property = the right to own slaves, free speech = the right to mislead and to manipulate) |
|
attitude towards the electoral process |
inclusion (wants to make sure that everyone is exercising this right) |
exclusion (wants to make sure that the undesirables do not exercise right, by changing or breaking the electoral law); the general population is mostly Leftist, because in a hierarchy most are at the bottom of the pyramid; however, among the majority we can find: 1. "useful idiots" that belive the Right's propaganda becuse of a lack of education, 2. "alt-right", that has sadistic interests, 3. the "middle class" or the "small burgoisie" that has risen (maybe with the help of their parents) from the lower class (well payed employees, medical doctors, lawyers, small business owners, etc.) and that hope to rise more, into the ruling class of big business and aristocracy |
for violence they blame |
the aggressor |
the victim |
in exercising one's rights, the priority is the freedom of |
the other |
one's own |
the whole system is rigged - the mania of persecution (e.g. philosophers find excuses to bring islam into our country or to let the brown people walk freely and vote; studies demonstrate Leftist values are more prevalent because they are rigged and bought, etc.), so the liar is seen as the most authentic (Trump is lying to remain in power); the behaviour of people, regardless of their role in the society, have a hidden agenda (conspiracy theory) |
no |
yes |
anti: economic elite (99% vs. 1%); pro: cancelling of economic inequalities. |
anti: ethnic (immigrants vs. natives); religious (true belivers vs. atheists) minorities; educated / urban elites; globalisation; pro: immigrant deportation; make the nation great and pure through traditions and by bringing back blue collar jobs. |
Economics
Left |
Right |
|
---|---|---|
wealth distribution |
anarchical: commune / socialist / communist |
hierarchical: "communist" (stalinism, maoism, etc.), capitalist, feudalist, slavery (those at the top of the hierarchy have the most wealth) |
attitude towards resources |
socialisation / sharing (coop) |
privatisation / grabbing (company: local king over the means of production) |
attitude towards people with special needs |
empathy |
disdain |
social services |
public, generally available |
private, missing, available on economical or political grounds |
for |
against |
|
comercial organisation type |
coop |
company |
they are for funding of |
social inclusion and help groups (NGOs), open source projects, independent journalism |
discrimination and hate groups (religious groups, "pro-life" groups, anti-LGBTQ+), propaganda media that serves the interests of the group |
attitude towards the ownership right over natural resources (land, forests, mineral resources, etc.) |
against |
for |
attitude towards profitting off of someone else's labour |
against |
for |
attitude towards profiting off of people's needs (private medical services, private medical insurance, where gathered funds are divided between costs and profit) |
against |
for |
minimum wage / universal basic income |
for |
against |
attitudine towards environmental issues |
interrested |
not interrested |
when the law is not clear enough, fall back to ethics |
yes |
no |
financial free market (any financial institution has equal rights with any other financial institution) |
against (regulation for local institutions to not use the currency of another country) |
for |
products free market (any products / services can be on the market from any country or producer) |
against (regulations (a.k.a. taxes) for protecting local companies and work force) |
for |
labour free market (anyone can get hired anywhere by anyone else, according to his / her abilities) |
for |
against (regulations for accepting foreign workers that are payed smaller salaries and work in worse conditions, as contractors) |
attitude towards people's health and towards the environment |
health and the environment are above profits |
profits are above health and the environment (see Schweighofer-Holzindustrie, Dupont, Daraprim, Tönnies, etc. cases) - treat lower class people (the workers, the poor) as disposable (self-replenishing resource) and they are painted as the source of criminality; child labour, people traficking, trading weapons and drugs for profit - they don't bow to the Law because they "are covered" (coruption) |
who is to blame for social inequality |
resource grabbing by those in power (politically or economically), right-wing propaganda and lack of access to free education, heathcare and higiene, shelter and food; building a system that favours those who have the luck to be born in famillies that can afford |
shift the blame on the powerless to defend themselves from these accusations: imigrants; workers that "are not intelligent enough to pull themselves up from their own bootstraps and to take risks and they are lazy" |
taxes |
yes, "they finance the public sector: social services, infrastructure, etc." |
no, "taxes are theft: why should the government do it, when I can do it myself and make some profit?" |
public-private partnership (public contracts) |
no: "it's theft from public funds, corruption" |
yes: "public funds must fund private enterprises, that make profit a % of the allocated funds" |
intelectual property licensing |
copyright |
copyleft |
Notes
A feature of the Rightwing that I cannot frame yet, but that belongs to maintaining the status-quo for conservative resons, is if they have a debate that put certain terms in a negative light (nationalism, religion) they are trying to muddy the waters and apease the audience with a conciliatory attitude: "let's discuss, let's find the middle ground". The middle ground is not always possible, especially when opinions and facts are treated as equal, or when we have a choice between stagnation and evolution. Another problem with the Right is that they get very defensive when debating the economic ideology. This defensiveness has its origin in Francis Fukuyama's declaration that was saying that "history is over" and that capitalism is the ultimate solution for the economy. The Right does not accept any change in the functioning of the economy.
Clarifications
- Inflation:
The government can create wealth by injecting money into the market, if those money go directly to consumers. This creates a problem for those storing wealth in bank accounts, because the value of money decreases.
- Freedom:
Pozitive and negative freedom
- Extremism vs. Radicalism
Extremism is the movement to push the status quo towards the current ideology's extreme.
Radicalism is the movement to push the status quo towards the current ideology's oposite by implementing fast / shock / radical changes, all at once.
- Centre
At the Centre we find those who do not agree with te Right's authoritarianism, but favour Right-wing economic policies and Left-wing social rethoric (but not policies, which they tend to favour the Right's). In character they adopt deceit: their narrative is somewhat Left-wing, but their policy is of small steps, in order not to step on businesses' interests toes.
- Other political spectrum theories
Plotting political positions on a Cartezian system, the economical and political axes respectively, or even adopting a multidimentional system is incorrect, as those axes can individually be considered as a left - right axis, because it is clear that the positions on those axes emerge from the base charateristics of the left - right axis, so these are derivative characteristics. It is also erroneous to consider extremisms being identical on those multiple axes, that would lead to the curbing of those axes, such that the extreme left would touch the extreme right, in a horseshoe shape. Those two extremes are fundametally different on all their aspects. The extreme left is 100% the opposite of the extreme right.
Social / Personality
Left
Right
opinion leader
scientific consensus, humanist values
group leader
priority
humanity / life
ideology
social relationships
cooperation: "together we are strong"
competition: "divide et impera"
relationship with the out-group
inclusion
exclusion (discrimination)
attitudine towards new
interest, progresism
fear, conservative
default behaviour
friendly (diplomacy)
suspicion (conflictual, combativity)
conflict resolution
diplomacy
by force, violence
empathy
yes
in-group only, limited
religiosity
no
yes
value system base, base features
cooperation, humanist philosophy, science, non-hierarchical, empathy, altruism, socialism, courage, anarchy
competitivity, nationalism, rasism, religion, hierarchic, lack of empathy / sadism, fear, egocentrism (egoism), individualism, authoritarism
respect
gains
claims
problems / conflict
solves
creates
violence out of the pleasure to affirm his/her authority
no
yes
social justice narrative
fighting for the weak (alfa male)
fighting for his/her own or group leader power statute (beta male)
parenting attitude
reward, cooperation
punishment, spying: helicopter
language
literary, restrained
unrestrained, violent
grammar (weak correlation?)
grammar-nazi
lax
honesty
yes, "has a spine", learns for exams
lies (mostly through omission, but also through "alternate facts") if the facts or the available data do not serve his/her own interrests; frauds exams
morality / ethics
yes
no
when lacking power
has dignity (does not accept the hierarchy, is anarchist)
servile / subservient (he/she knows his/her place, but he/she wants to be in the graces of the lider with the hidden agenda of taking his/her place one day; deceitful: at the right moment he/she strikes to grab the power (is biting the hand that fed him/her))
predisposition to conspiracy theories (belives, spreads, produces)
no
yes
healthy habits
yes
no (thinks he/she's invincible)
fitness + proteins
no
yes (wants to physically impose)
borderline sociopathology
no
yes
opulence
no
yes
in case of humiliation he/she is
brave
coward
adaptability / assimilation
yes
no
neuroticism
no
yes
narcissism
no
yes
while talking about the reality uses
the truth
the art of lying
purpose in life
build civilisation
become or stay rich and powerful
knows when others are joking
yes
no
future prediction accuracy (follows from progresivism / conservatism)
good
awful
the logic of thinking
based on scientific evidence or progresist ideology
based on belifs and superstitions or conservative ideology