Left–right political spectrum
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"Under the influence of the migration crisis, some of the European right have suddenly shifted positions from anti-Semitic, misogynist and homophobic to philo-semitic, feminist and gay-friendly; on the other side of the political spectrum, some of the European left have evolved from rabid atheism and anti-clericalism to a sympathetic position towards theism."--Sholem Stein "The old left–right economic divide largely separated Pioneers from Prospectors, with Settlers somewhere in the middle." --Whiteshift (2018) by Eric Kaufmann |
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The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties. Left-wing politics and right-wing politics are often presented as opposed, although a particular individual or group may take a left-wing stance on one matter and a right-wing stance on another. In France, where the terms originated, the Left has been called "the party of movement" and the Right "the party of order." The intermediate stance is called centrism and a person with such a position is a moderate.
There is general agreement that the Left includes: progressives, communists, social-liberals, greens, social-democrats, socialists, democratic-socialists, left-libertarians, secularists, feminists, autonomists, anti-imperialists, anti-capitalists, and anarchists.
There is also general consensus that the Right includes: conservatives, reactionaries, neoconservatives, traditionalists, capitalists, neoliberals, right-libertarians, social-authoritarians, monarchists, theocrats, nationalists and fascists.
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