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Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
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In <Pine.LNX.3.95.971203175851.581C-100000@is-chief>, on 12/03/97
at 06:10 PM, Jim Burnes <[email protected]> said:
>On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, James Love wrote:
>> Declan McCullagh wrote:
>> >
>> > Jamie, if you're seriously confused about the differences between
>> > left-wing and right-wing groups I can help educate you, perhaps with a few
>> > rules of thumb. But I suspect that you really don't want a serious answer.
>>
>> I didn't think the big government fetish answer was very good. I
>> don't want to put words in your mouth. But if you think you can really
>> explain what constitutes a leftist, in your view, I'm ready to read it.
>>
>> Jamie
>Man! Talk about burning bandwidth on politics 101. The problem is that
>you're both stuck using Orwellian newspeak for political classification.
>If people only have a single dimension to
>classify political beliefs then there can't be very many
>beliefs.
>Multidimensional political beliefs systems don't hash into the one
>dimensional left/right axis very well. The collision rate is too high.
>For a somewhat better map at least check out the Nolan chart.
>http://www.self-gov.org/lp-quiz.shtml
As I stated in my previous post the Nolan chart is flawed. In it's
attempts to be "two-dimensional" it artificially separates interdependent
philosophies. Economic Freedom = Personal Freedom. You can not have one
without the other. The major failings of the socialist is their
unwillingness to accept this fact. A free society can not survive under a
socialist regime any more that a totalitarian society can survive under a
capitalist one.
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