emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
You couldn't be more wrong Coyote. The political spectrum is a single line. On one side is collective government. On the opposite end is no government.
I don't think it's that simplified, there are a lot of factors that go into what is left and what is right, and there are ideologies that make more sense to map it in a 4 way grid. IMO, the modern effort to claim Nazi's were left is nothing more than an attempt to white wash the atrocities of the right and lay them on the left. Both sides have atrocities and there are historians that place ideologies like that of Hitler and Stalin in their own category. This revisionism is a new trend, I don't buy it
No, there aren't. There is no circular governmental theory. A government is either total, or non existent. Those are the two extremes. There is no such thing as a totalitarian left wing government, and a totalitarian right wing government. They are BOTH totalitarian! The only differences are in what colors they use.You couldn't be more wrong Coyote. The political spectrum is a single line. On one side is collective government. On the opposite end is no government.
I don't think it's that simplified, there are a lot of factors that go into what is left and what is right, and there are ideologies that make more sense to map it in a 4 way grid. IMO, the modern effort to claim Nazi's were left is nothing more than an attempt to white wash the atrocities of the right and lay them on the left. Both sides have atrocities and there are historians that place ideologies like that of Hitler and Stalin in their own category. This revisionism is a new trend, I don't buy it
No, there aren't. There is no circular governmental theory. A government is either total, or non existent. Those are the two extremes. There is no such thing as a totalitarian left wing government, and a totalitarian right wing government. They are BOTH totalitarian! The only differences are in what colors they use.
It's not just left right - there is also a authority, you are looking at only one aspect defining left/right and it's not the only aspect. I see this as a more accurate representation (one of many).
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That graph is DUMB. By that graph, guys like Stalin, Jung-un, Castro, etc. are only moderately to the left. That is false. They were/are extreme left.
They weren't extreme left - they were extreme authoritarian. Extreme left would have been a socialist collective. Stalin's USSR empowered Stalin, not the people.
Yes Coyote so when the Left
gives ALL authority to Govt to make laws without Constitutional limits checks or balances, this means giving power to people like Stalin, Obama, etc. who mandate their PARTY beliefs through Govt instead of respecting Constitutional rights, representation and due process of citizens.