On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:34:51 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
>
>> This may seem uneducated of me - but I here you all saying "i'm right of
>> centre", "he's left", "left winged", "right winged" etc, can someone please
>> explain to me just what these terms mean?
>
>This dates back to the French parliament of 1789 where the radicals that
>wanted to change society towards more equality and freedom sat to the left
>as seen from the rostrum, and the conservatives that wanted to maintain
>the old system sat to the right. Since then, liberal politics has been
>labeled "left" and conservative politics has been labeled "right".
>
>In the mid 19th century, an even more radical ideology was formed,
>socialism, to the "left" of the then current left. This blurred the
>left--right concept somewhat, since the liberals then became "middle" or
>even "right". The left--right concept became even more blurred in the
>1930's when fascism and nazism was placed off the scale to the right
>("extreme right") even though many people think that they have more in
>common with the communists on the "extreme left" (left of the socialists)
>than with the conservatives traditionally labeled "right".
>
>Nowadays, it can be hard to determine what should be called "left" and
>"right" and there also are big differences within each side, so one should
>generally ask for clarification when these terms are used. Especially in
>an international context such as this.
>
>anders
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>http://anders.hultman.nu/
>med dagens bild och allt!
A post worthy of saving. Thank, Anders.
