| There seems to be a conflation of left and right with communism and capitalism. They are not the same thing. As I mentioned, most people today are capitalist. Left and right tend to differ in terms of their view of what constitutes justice, rather than in the essential basis of capitalism. It is important to distinguish between the system of economics and the system of governance. There is usually a relationship between the two, but it's neither causal nor exclusive.
It's also difficult for me to grasp how the world can be adequately described in terms of one simple dimension. |