5. How Do We Know What Left and Right Mean? Who’s who on the left and right: 1789-1917
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Socialism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentynth Century
The only paradime that makes any sense for how nineteenth and early twentieth century socialists classified themselves on a left right spectrum is hierarchy versus equality. The anarchists were on the left because they wanted the most direct path to political, economic, cultural and international equality. But when ruled war one broke out, they sided with their respective nations in the war, abandoning the principle of international equality. So pre bolshevik revolution, you had the most liberty and the most equality on the left, and then on the right. In the middle you had the least liberty and the second most equality. And on the right, you have the least equality and the secondmost liberty. A boo.
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