Posts

Showing posts with the label political philosophy

The Definition of Left, Liberal, Right, ain't right...

Image
I keep hearing americans, especially in recent years, since Trump took office, misusing such terms, and i'm gradually seeing others across the world following suit like good little ventriloquist dummies with Uncle Sam's hand shoved so far up their backsides that it tickles their tonsils.  It is a thoroughly americocentric or eurocentric definition, and illustrates the shift of both the left and right to the right in the west.  Something like marching left-right, left-right, on the right-side of the road.  So allow me to clarify...    1. Left is - where the people own all the means of production, have full and free elections, can through referendums throw out a government anytime, and the government itself is more of an administrative body rather than a 'ruling' one.  It's only restriction is that capitalism cannot be reinstated as freedom cannot make allowance for the return of slavery.   Supporting LGBT, Eurofeminism, etc, is not necessarily a p...