the issue with calling left and right left and right

economic left and economic right need to be renamed socialist and capitalist. "oh but i'm on the left and i like capitalism." fine then let me explain a bit here, the closer to the center a leftist is the more they embrace capitalism. in other words they want socialism with capitalist safeguards, national socialism. the closer to the center the right is the more they embrace socialism. in other words they want capitalism with socialist safeguards, democratic republic. as for anarchy all forms of anarchy are liberty oriented. anaracho-communism leans left embracing socialism, anarco-capitalism leans right embracing capitalism. the issue with anarchy is that if you are anarcho-anything you're not fully an anarchist, as you want to replace the absence of government with your own version. "true" anarchist are liberty center not embracing neither capitalism nor socialism. i have seen charts and compasses and so on that have redefined left and right a few different ways. the 2 most popular is more gov (left) vs less gov (right),this one while i like it i don't think really helps in defining why leftist tend to hate capitalism while it's right wingers who have embraced it, and collectivist (left) vs individualist (right), this one i like, in fact i like it a little better than the idea as i'm proposing as it explains why some forms of government under a right wing model would include such gov types as monarchy and theocracy (authoritarian right ideas kinda like communism and dictatorship are authoritarian left ideas). just some thoughts as it's clear that left v right does cause some confusion in people (specifically leftist) when they try to define their political ideas.


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