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To: Feline_AIDS

The “right-left” spectrum is not an apt way of delineating political views. A better way of describing the spectrum is a “liberty-totalitarian” spectrum. Nazism, communism, dictatorships, etc., lie on the totalitarian side of the graph. Representative republics are on the liberty side. The more the citizens in the representative republic give up their freedoms in return for intangibles like stability, security, peace, etc., the more they drift toward the totalitarian end.


8 posted on 10/25/2010 12:59:41 PM PDT by Guyin4Os (A messianic ger-tsedek)
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To: Guyin4Os
I don't remember where I saw it, but I remember a two dimensional graph showing personal liberty as one axis and economic liberty as the other.
This way you show the libertarians in the corner with both personal and economic liberty.
Christian conservative would be somewhat closer to another corner (with economic liberty, but less personal liberty - for example would regulate or outlaw drugs and smut).
The modern left might be closer to the corner with little economic freedom but more personal freedom (except they wouldn't want to let you eat cheese burgers).
North Korea would occupy the final corner with neither type of freedom.
I think the Nazis had a form of crony capitalism. More economic freedom than Stalinists (at least for favored groups), but personal freedom positioned relatively close to Stalinists.
36 posted on 10/25/2010 1:18:48 PM PDT by conejo99
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