westwall What defines them? I think it's misleading to look at it solely as defined by the absence or presence of government (or state).
Rightwing:
Individual Authority
Individual Liberty
Favoring Hierarchy
Socially Conservative
Nationalism
Anti-taxation
Equal playing field
Pro-Military
Traditional
Leftwing:
Collective Authority
Collective Liberty
Favoring Equality
Socially Liberal
Globalism
Social spending
Equal outcome
Anti-Military
Progressive
RIGHTWING
Individual Authority. Correct. The individual takes precedence over the collective.
Individual Liberty. Correct, the individual is free to do what they want, with who they want, when they want.
Rightwing doesn't favor hierarchy, it accepts that there needs to be some form of it, but begrudgingly.
Socially conservative is not rightwing, it is leftwing.
Nationalism is ultimately leftwing. Look at the way collectivist governments refer to their countries. Nazis called Germany the Fatherland, communists called Russia the Motherland. The ultimate form of rightwing is anarchy. There can be no nationalism when there is no nation.
Anti Taxation, yup. To a point.
Equal Playing Field, absolutely.
Pro-military, yes, but so are leftwing groups. After all, you need a strong military to subjugate your citizens. The difference is in a rightwing government military service is normally voluntary, in a leftwing government it is mandatory.
Traditional, true, for a leftwing government to survive it must first destroy the traditions that came before it so they can replace those traditions with their own.
I disagree - social conservatism and traditional values are absolutely rightwing, not left.
Nationalism is also rightwing vs. leftwing globalism (or internationalism).
It doesn't mean there isn't cross over - for example rightwing Nazi's and leftwing Stalinists employed many of the same tactics, so if you view it as not just economic left/right axis, but also social left/right and authority/less authority the extreme right (Nazi) and extreme left (Stalinist) authoritarian regimes are very similar.
Rightwing governments typically have mandatory military service but also typically glorify the military.
Define socially conservative.
Nationalism is leftwing. Globalism is merely a group of leftwing countries deciding to control everything, and everybody.
If they use the same tactics, they ARE the same. Your pointing out that Nazis were slightly less totalitarian than Stalinists only shows that they were still totalitarian, just a little nicer to the people they liked. But only a little.
Leftwing governments ALWAYS glorify the military.
First - define social conservative. Essentially, protecting the status quo. Protecting traditional culture, and what is accepted as traditional evolves. Liberals (leftists) push the social envelope, expanding what is defined as "us" - sometimes beyond what society can tolerate, but they push. Liberalism is increasing inclusiveness...Conservatism is protecting social exclusivism, protecting the more narrow definition of us. Social conservatism is what opposes homosexual rights and marriage for example, or the a more liberal and equal role for women, or a woman's rights to determine her own sexual agenda. Social conservatism carefully defines roles for men and women, respects authority and religion, traditional marriage and role models for children. Social conservatism is not necessarily bring me a sammich because the status quo that is being preserved as adopted a broader role for women in some respects. At least in the US. That's how I see it - this is my opinion only, but it's based on an interesting read I found:
The fundamentalist agenda
Definitions are definitions - we don't get to make up our own. Nationalism and Globalism (or Internationalism) have meanings and one entity can't really be both. I might be wrongly conflating Internationalism and Globalism, if so, I stand corrected.
Internationalism (associated with the left):
the principle of cooperation among nations, for the promotion of their common good, sometimesas contrasted with nationalism, or devotion to the interests of a particular nation.
Nationalism (associated with the right):
identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
Totalitarianism is not the pervue of only one ideology - left and right can both end in a totalitarian regime.
Leftism does not always end up in totalitarianism....if the right emphasizes the authority of the individual, and the left emphasizes the authority of the collective, then democracy itself, a collective endeavor is pretty leftist.
Leftist countries such as much of Europe are hardly totalitarian.
You kind of presented a very one sided view here.
