Here, read this - you can skip over all the graphing stuff at the top; the author has a pretty good write up that answers your question from your closing paragraph - what left is:
Here, read this - you can skip over all the graphing stuff at the top; the author has a pretty good write up that answers your question from your closing paragraph - what left is:
You've provided yet *another* definition of the "left".
(BTW, I have posted the political compass – yet another definition, which your author criticizes – elsewhere in this discussion.)
Your author *also* recognizes that the terms "Left" and "Right" as somewhat nebulous in his closing paragraph.
So please don't write in a way that it seems like you've found the definitive definition of "the left". (But thank you for the contribution.)
It's not my question, it's Kaczynski's, and it's not even a question : he provides his own definition of some category of people he names "leftists", and asks us to follow him reasoning about a very specific model of the world.
I'll also note that both Kaczynski and your author consider Stalin as the "most leftist that has ever leftisted".
I'll have to consider that, as (formerly?) a leftist myself I had initially rejected that classification (also why I had embraced the political compass, which also clearly sets, say, Gandhi and Stalin apart).
I wasn't considering Kaczynski at all, or, rather perhaps, whatever parts of his you quoted or content you yourself generated; I have no interest in the man or his manifesto.
However, it's worth noting that propaganda in the USA has been intentionally screwing around with the term "left", specifically to make it hard for us to communicate effectively.
Also note that "the right" has much the same problem as we on the left have with the usurpation of "conservative."
Here, read this - you can skip over all the graphing stuff at the top; the author has a pretty good write up that answers your question from your closing paragraph - what left is:
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/redefining_the_political_spectru.htm
You've provided yet *another* definition of the "left".
(BTW, I have posted the political compass – yet another definition, which your author criticizes – elsewhere in this discussion.)
Your author *also* recognizes that the terms "Left" and "Right" as somewhat nebulous in his closing paragraph.
So please don't write in a way that it seems like you've found the definitive definition of "the left". (But thank you for the contribution.)
It's not my question, it's Kaczynski's, and it's not even a question : he provides his own definition of some category of people he names "leftists", and asks us to follow him reasoning about a very specific model of the world.
I'll also note that both Kaczynski and your author consider Stalin as the "most leftist that has ever leftisted".
I'll have to consider that, as (formerly?) a leftist myself I had initially rejected that classification (also why I had embraced the political compass, which also clearly sets, say, Gandhi and Stalin apart).
I wasn't considering Kaczynski at all, or, rather perhaps, whatever parts of his you quoted or content you yourself generated; I have no interest in the man or his manifesto.
However, it's worth noting that propaganda in the USA has been intentionally screwing around with the term "left", specifically to make it hard for us to communicate effectively.
Also note that "the right" has much the same problem as we on the left have with the usurpation of "conservative."