-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.LNX.3.95.971203175851.581C-100000@is-chief>, on 12/03/97 at 06:10 PM, Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com> said:
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, James Love wrote:
Declan McCullagh wrote:
Jamie, if you're seriously confused about the differences between left-wing and right-wing groups I can help educate you, perhaps with a few rules of thumb. But I suspect that you really don't want a serious answer.
I didn't think the big government fetish answer was very good. I don't want to put words in your mouth. But if you think you can really explain what constitutes a leftist, in your view, I'm ready to read it.
Jamie
Man! Talk about burning bandwidth on politics 101. The problem is that you're both stuck using Orwellian newspeak for political classification. If people only have a single dimension to classify political beliefs then there can't be very many beliefs.
Multidimensional political beliefs systems don't hash into the one dimensional left/right axis very well. The collision rate is too high.
For a somewhat better map at least check out the Nolan chart.
As I stated in my previous post the Nolan chart is flawed. In it's attempts to be "two-dimensional" it artificially separates interdependent philosophies. Economic Freedom = Personal Freedom. You can not have one without the other. The major failings of the socialist is their unwillingness to accept this fact. A free society can not survive under a socialist regime any more that a totalitarian society can survive under a capitalist one. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNIaOmY9Co1n+aLhhAQIQSgP/apwzqHaQ6IZUfHCstIZW8erxWTNFkNn6 FD33wSoFDs0Af9G6GL9bp1JgtE2GbSlkUqpCtPGhOm63Hv4CVBN/NACpVhNwWZfj YoS5BnbFTiSk1hDYOAEaQRkM9KA11YWxsBV6nNPqvIIdVMSBTBY9uUbJBqgkNGye BwKDPxAEmM8= =954+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----