The uniting idea of the left is collectivism. Of the right, personal freedom.
European uses of these terms are irrelevant, because Europeans have no historical model of personal freedom.
Yes, you are eminently correct.
To the Left you have collectivism and Collective rights.. to the right you have individual rights.
I've explained it this way - set up a scale of 1 - 10 with 1 on the right, 10 on the left.
The number represents the amount of government control that is present.
On this scale 0 represents anarchy and 10 full, totalitarian Socialism with Statism, Collectivism, Fascism in the same vicinity.
With this illustration it is hard to try to pretend that those various despotic forms can be anything but leftist.
Exactly!