Left versus Right


Politics

Left

Right

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"

freedom

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

populism

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

inflation

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


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


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:

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.