Politics Beyond Right & Left
Politics Beyond Right & Left
Most people think of Politics along a spectrum of Left to Right. Those terms originated from a seating arrangement that developed during the French Revolution. When I was in high school, back in the late 1960s, I got the idea that there was a second spectrum of political thinking at right angles to the first one, which together would make Politics a field. This second spectrum extends from Totalitarianism, (place that at the bottom) to Anarchism, (place that at the top)
The Corporate Rights Movement always disguises itself as Patriotism. They say they want small government. What they mean, is that they want weak government which corporations can dominate and control completely
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You were a very insightful high schooler! Yes, the single-axis, left-right model doesn’t take into account that the weighing the freedom of the individual versus the good of the community happens on both an economic and social sphere. Today’s Republicans who talk about smaller government but want to stick their noses into all kinds of social issues being an excellent issue…
It’s totalitarians against everybody else. I side with everybody else.
Once upon a time there were right wing totalitarians and left wing totalitarians. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and China has been under martial laws so long, it shouldn’t be considered anything but a military dictatorship. You might have noticed that they are totally in bed with the corporations now, and paying their workers slave wages…
Good article! We have to get beyond this left/right thing, and to do that people have to think outside of the box. To think outside the box is a progressive idea, so that leaves out the rightwingers then doesn’t it?