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Originally Posted by Oleander
Hoo! You have a point there Linguist. Some people think Anarcho-Socialist an impossible union of direct opposites. When I think Left, I think as far as possible freedom for everybody to do whatever they want to do, something like an aristocratic slave state without the slaves (robots anyone?). But by 'Freedom', the Right often means freedom to choose between a few choices of what is necessary to survive that are set for you. Rightist freedom is like a supermarket stuffed full of different brands except they're all beans. Leftist freedom is directing a cook or doing it yourself.
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Exactly. Far left and far right have nothing to do with freedom, with the possible exception of anarchy. Anarchy would be extreme far left; so would communism; socialism would as well; some might even argue that the green party is. But they are fundamentally different!! One could argue bible belt, national socialism, conservative nationalism, neo-conservative fanaticism, monarchism, are all far right, but have very, VERY different purposes. Eh, not even to mention the stuff in between.
Some ideologies are contradictory. Take internationalism. That could be far left, center, far right or anything in between depending on the circumstances.
So, at the risk of sounding NT, I'm leaving that one alone until it's classified better....
