Message from @ThisIsNotGreg
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Not even remotely close
Dude, I’m gonna be honest with you
I don’t mind you sitting here trying to teach me but you’re operating on the assumption that I don’t know what it means, and maybe instead of condescending, you should posit your own answer, because it doesn’t mean low taxes, no regulation, and max personal liberty like some falsely think it does
The opposite of conservative is progressive
What's the opposite of anarchism?
Yes, and a lot of these progressives love Noam Chomsky who is an anarchist
Your point ?
When you see AntiFa, do you see “progress”
Or anarchy
My point is you can read a million books on politics and not understand a single thing about politics if you haven't done your homework first
The opposite of anarchism by the way is authoritarianism
Cool
The opposite is *Order*
I do see "progress" when I see ANTIFA. I think a big mistake we make is that "progress" equates to universal good. They're certainly trying to "progress" things in their own interest, that's for sure.
Understanding these concepts is absolutely neccessary to understand anything about politics
Most people don't understand them, even a lot who are very much into politics
Oh look out ETB saw the Y axis of a political compass and now he’s a genius
Lmaoooo
Yeah oddly enough that's the part most people skip over
The most basic stuff
Because I notice it’s only me providing actual substantive information rn
You’re simple critiquing with no follow up
Well I mean it's a lot of work to describe different political ideologies
Especially the ones that have been tainted by common misunderstandings
Ok fine I got it
I have a question
I can give an example of something that is almost universally misunderstood
*What is the difference between the Left Wing, and the Right Wing In politics*
Could you answer that?
Yes, but with a caveat
I can describe the difference in a few ways, one are the most commonly understood differences, and two is the most logical difference
Political ideologies as they're commonly understood these days aren't actually logical
I'd estimate they're roughly 30-50% inaccurate depending on where you live
That's a very high error rate and so political labeling becomes meaningless
For example most people think fascism and Nazism are right-wing ideologies. They're not.
But to understand why, one must assume a logical position instead of common labels
A simple reason why fascism can't be right-wing is because it's collectivist. And since capitalism is understood as *not left, but right,* therefore collectivist ideologies (which can't be capitalist), can't be found on the right.
Some people argue that capitalism can be collectivist, but those are complete mongoloids.
So yeah, set up a logical system and you can describe politics properly, but it won't end up resembling the commonly understood labeling.
Perhaps if this all has made sense to you, then you may've noticed that, since fascism isn't right-wing (at least not in a logically consistent way) therefore it must actually be either center or left, and that means if we find any other ideologies on the left, they must resemble fascism in some aspects far more than what is commonly understood.