The left wing and the right wing are relative, and the specific content of their propositions will not be the same under different backgrounds, and they cannot be divided by static "ism" or "class".
In the traditional impression of the western world, the right wing usually refers to a political party that supports nationalism, defends traditional family values and religions (Jewish-Christian cultural traditions), and opposes socialism, productism and internationalism. It believes that some social stratification and social inequality are normal, natural and inevitable.
Some people use "right wing" to refer to the supporters of laissez-faire capitalism. However, although laissez-faire, it does not include the free flow of immigrants. In addition, the right wing is more conservative about religious conflicts, so it is more cautious and even exclusive about racial issues.
The definition of liberalism changed after Roosevelt's New Deal in the1930s. Those who supported government intervention in the market economy were called "liberals" and those who supported Libreville's market economy were called "conservatives". After that, "liberal" and "left wing" became synonyms, while "right wing" and "conservative" were opposite.
But the right wing is originally a liberal, classical liberalism is the political philosophy of the right wing, and modern liberalism has become synonymous with the left wing.
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In most cases, the different views of left and right are as follows:
First, Michael Lei Kedun Wald believes that the left advocates egalitarianism, democracy and diversity in the cultural field and other aspects, while the right advocates the irreconcilable rule of a few people;
Second, in his book Left and Right: The Meaning of a Political Division, Norberto Bobbio believes that the fundamental difference between left and right lies in whether a country should attach importance to equality or freedom (privilege). The former is left and the latter is right.
Third, the relationship between government and economic development should be interventionism or laissez-faire, the former is left-wing and the latter is right-wing; Nolan's chart, for example, takes this as one of the criteria for distinguishing the left from the right. Another criterion is that the government should be secular and independent of religious or moral beliefs, which is the left wing, or should be the integration of politics and religion, which is the right wing;
Fourth, Australian Labor Party politician mark latham pointed out that the difference between the left and the right lies in the fairness of the result (left) or the fairness of the process (right), that is, daniel bell, an American thinker and sociologist who considers himself a socialist in the economic field, said that "it is not equal opportunity, but equal result";
Fifth, eric hoffer believes that radical change (leftist) or strict control of change (rightist) is needed;
Sixth, the left is the most marginalized social force in history, and the most dissatisfied is the dissatisfaction with the distribution of power, which demands that the society be changed through reform and revolution, while the right is a basically consolidated social force that can adapt to the status quo, and their way of changing society is conservative.
Thomas Sowell believes that the left advocates that human nature and society are plastic, that human nature is the result of non-innate education, and that the right believes that human nature and society are immutable and innate.
Seventh, the left advocates that economic interests serve the poor, while the right advocates serving the rich. For example, Michael Parenti believes that the media market is inherently beneficial to the right, because the rich have greater ability to pay for the use of media.
Although left and right have these different viewpoints and positions, it is difficult to accurately distinguish whether a person is left or right. As daniel bell said, those who "think that as long as someone is radical in one field, he will be radical in other areas; On the contrary, if someone is conservative in one field, he will be conservative in other fields.
This understanding misjudges the nature of different fields of sociology and morality. "
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Right Wing