{"id":376520,"date":"2018-09-08T02:57:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T01:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/left-right-and-dead-center\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T02:57:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T01:57:40","slug":"left-right-and-dead-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/left-right-and-dead-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Left, Right, and Dead Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_105124\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105124\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/8495360404_bc676e4b71_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/8495360404_bc676e4b71_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/8495360404_bc676e4b71_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Photo YourSpace | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Left, right, and center are spatial terms and relational notions; \u201cleft\u201d and \u201cright\u201d are defined in relation to one another. \u00a0In political contexts, these terms also have a more substantive meaning.<\/p>\n<p>From the time of the French Revolution, when the more radical delegates to the National embly seated themselves to the left of the presiding officer, \u201cleft\u201d has designated a relatively stable, though evolving and multi-faceted, political orientation; \u201cright\u201d has had a corresponding, contrary meaning.\u00a0\u00a0 These polar opposites constitute a spectrum along which people, policies, programs, and political parities can be arrayed.<\/p>\n<p>What they signify is impossible to say precisely, though the difference is well understood.\u00a0 This is because an idealized or notional left\/right spectrum has been recognized, more or less explicitly, by nearly everyone since the late eighteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>Very generally, the Left is dedicated to continuing the French Revolutionary commitment to \u201cliberty, equality, and fraternity (community).\u201d\u00a0 Tradition, authority, and order are the core values of the Right.<\/p>\n<p>Socialists of all types, anarchists and New Deal-Great Society-Bernie Sanders liberals \u2013 but not \u201cclassical liberals\u201d (\u201clibertarians\u201d in common parlance), at least not nowadays \u2014 are on the Left; conservatives are usually, though not necessarily, on the Right.<\/p>\n<p>Political parties and social movements that everyone understands to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/09\/07\/left-right-and-dead-center\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Photo YourSpace | CC BY 2.0 Left, right, and center are spatial terms and relational notions; \u201cleft\u201d and \u201cright\u201d are defined in relation to one another. \u00a0In political contexts, these terms also have a more substantive meaning. From the time of the French Revolution, when the more radical delegates to the National embly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}