The political spectrum explained.

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[YCDPKLD]

Should've made it a diamond then silly man.

[scalp340]

@YCDPKLD The reason why I kept it basic was to show the primitive thinking of how we view politics and the spectrum itself.

[DesecrateConformity]

You misrepresented anarchism. Anarchism, traditionally, has always been a left-leaning political philosophy, but it really can exist on both the right and left. There are social anarchists (left) and market anarchists (right). And 'left' doesn't necessarily mean more government. It represents collectivism on an economic level, and nothing else. The authoritarian and libertarian scale is supposed to represent the amount of government omnipresence in society.

[scalp340]

@DesecrateConformity The goal of the video isn't to change or define the spectrum, or even say its wrong. the goal is to do away with the the whole "left/right" paradigm altogether.....or at least define them...

[sheepOG]

I like this spectrum.

[scalp340]

@sheepOG thanks! I tried to design a more 2d explainable spectrum, without out using the left/right paradigm.

[rodasnepervilo]

@mattchappelart1

Nope, that's a lie. And i don't really know who's the ignorant that told you that. Must be some neo-liberal that just cant stand nazism and fascism being far right.

Left or right are not defined by government control, that's a huge lie.

Left or right usually stands to define the approach of the system, right wing usually are the defenders of the hierarchy and economic imposed, and leftist are usually against hierarchys and want to change it.

[rodasnepervilo]

If something fits far-right politics, hitler is there.

[rodasnepervilo]

"The far right has historically supported elitist society based on belief of the legitimacy of the rule of a claimed superior minority over the inferior masses; and that the superior minority by virtue of their superiority have the right to make mandatory decisions upon the inferior masses that decide what roles certain elements of the masses are to pursue and other issues

[rodasnepervilo]

". Far right politics involves support of strong or complete social hierarchy in society, and supports supremacy of certain individuals or groups deemed to be innately superior who are to be more valued than those deemed to be innately inferior."

"The far right's advocacy of supremacism is based on what it perceives as innate characteristics of people that cannot be changed"

[SAEuropeanPatriot]

@rodasnepervilo The right-wing communists are still very firmly on the left. They are just more right wing then the likes of trotsky. What about right-libertarians that support capitalism? Anyway NS is not far-right. It is a Nationalist and Socialist movement, Hitler himself was from a poor family. Marx and Lenin were actually bourgeois XD

[rodasnepervilo]

@SAEuropeanPatriot

In theory Lenin is not a state capitalist, he has a very alternative interpretation of Marx's ideology, he called himself a "right-wing communist" which is kind of a distortion from what communism is actually meant to be.

And no, i'm not a trotskist, actually i value almost all kind of currents there is around communisms, but also libertarians, liberals and some democrats, i think every bit of them has logic behind them, and the best would be to take the best out of them

[SAEuropeanPatriot]

@rodasnepervilo It is obvious thay NS is against liberalism, libertarianism and communism. They so so openly. Acording to the likes of you communism is libertarian. I prefer to look at history then what Trotskyists(such as yourself) say communism really is. Lenin was also a despot who was anti-democratic. Was he a state capitalist as well?

[rodasnepervilo]

@SAEuropeanPatriot

And that's exactly what i mean, Stalinism is quite far from left, actually you can't find a difference between most fascist and Stalin's state, despite the religious issue.

Indeed Stalin used a state capitalism to try to rule and develop over other countries, Stalin was pretty much the sum of all Marx fears when trying to make a socialistic society.

Nazism goes against any form of communism, libertarianism or liberalism in the society, that's obvious.

[TheVanOorschot]

The social-cultural dimension is about government size or government attitude. Whichever, it's less relevant the classic left-right contrast. You seem to be focussing on certain cultural aspects which are not at all priorities when someone forms a government. Just read a book or two (not by Ron Paul) before you make these things.

Also, "hundred" in my last post should be "last few hundred years", since the left-right contrast was first spoke off just after the French revolution.

[TheVanOorschot]

The left-right dimension is a social-economic dimension. Maybe you haven't realised yet, but for the last hundred years, people have only cared about the money in their pockets so they could buy food. Left-Right was ALWAYS about economics. The extreme left was socialism and the extreme right was neoliberalism, or as you Americans call it: Libertarianism.

The social-cultural "Progressive against Conservative" or "Anarchism against Authoritarianism/Facism/Statis­m" dimension

[TheVanOorschot]

Which isn't good or bad, but you seem to think it is. You hide the premises on which the contemporary political theory is build simply because you don't LIKE them.