-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- James Ormond <jimo@astea.com> writes: <snip>
He defined the "political spectrum" as follows:
< ------- LEFT RIGHT ------->
Monarchy Oligarchy Democracy Republic Anarchy
Rule by: ONE FEW MANY LAW NONE
Examples: Dictator, Communist, Lynch Mob Constitutional King Fascist State Govt (US before 1930's)
I prefer the 2 dimentional spectrum (the libretarians tend to push this) that l;ooks more like this: (fucking) Statist Left Right Anarchist The statist-anarchist (the lidretarians use "libretarian" instead of "anarchist") scale is dependant on the centralization of power, and the left-right scale has to do with the amount of collectivism. So, the extremem of leftist-statis would be a socialist monarchy (think China), whereas leftist anarchist societies (like the commune I lived in last summer) are also possible. To round it out, there's right(ist? wing?) statist, like say pre-revolution France, and right(ist/wing) anarchist, which is what most people think of as anarchy, I guess. As you hint at in your post, the simple right-left scale is totally inadequate to describe political beliefs. I think that the one you're using was created by folks who wanted to demonize leftists.
Maybe I'm totally wrong in my thinking. If I am please try to clarify things for me.
Hope I did.
I think that most "leftists" and "rightists" want many of the same things. We can't get together because the language we use has been so corrupted.
Yeah, personally, I'm a moderate-left anarchist. It seems to me that most folks on this list are rightist anarchist. While our desired furute worlds are not the same, they are completely compatible as there is no central power to enforce an economic model on the citizen- units. Our methods to achieving our goals are also quite similar. Hope this helps, Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMpFSv8kz/YzIV3P5AQENCwMAgaLrCrefc2y50Zdb8hPdO4enZA3ZvsxW sLNSqyS6CRuzBWXeCj51FWWVFbWKVyS6BZjnsVkQxJGBli0eI7x8GLP4nPwhz7eq JCgw8rwGiXIpplMty5RXLD61yfOFpi5o =GkkO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----