• Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Specifically with politics the left-right spectrum is nothing to do with the surrounding culture. It’s objective rather than subjective. As a result to be classified “left” you cannot be occupying the “right” nor “central” section of the spectrum. Communist - socialist - centrist - conservative - fascist is an easy to remember five steps through the spectrum. Although obviously it is far more nuanced and complicated than that in reality.

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      4 months ago

      Hmm, interesting. But surely to be classified as objective, the definitions of left vs right couldn’t be so complicated, and only their relations to various political parties would be? What ARE the actual definitions?