Friday 25 January 2013

Left and right are the wrong way around

In political dialogue (especially in countries with fptp) it is generally considered that the right-wing party are the party of Capitalism and small government... and that the left-wing party like socialism and interventionism. And whilst the individual fptp parties might adhere to this stereotype we can say that the terms 'left' and 'right' are the wrong way around. The reason for this is that right has connotations of strength (perhaps because most people are right-handed) whereas 'left' has connotations of failure. But with fptp it is the right wing (that is to say socialist) party that will do well. For the liberal (Capitalist) party to do well in a fptp system requires that people are disciplined and vote for the single right-wing (not socialist) party. But this is like communism since a one-party state is communism. The Labour party (in the UK) is actually an anti-communist party and the Tories are the communist party of the establishment... due to their requirement in a fptp system to be disciplined and loyal to a single party. The Tories require loyalty to a single party which is communist and the Labour party are the antidote to that. The Labour party are the progressives which in turn makes them the party of orthodoxy because people and nature is progressive. The Labour party are the default party of government in a fptp system which makes them the right-wing party and so we deduce that the labels generally applied to Labour and the Conservative are misapplied.

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