5. How Do We Know What Left and Right Mean? Who’s who on the left and right: 1789-1917
WHAT IS POLITICS?
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Why Is Communism on the Far Right?
Left wing coalitions want big government when that advances different types of equality, like looser immigration or less prisons. Right wing coalitions wants big government to enforce hierarchies, like more police and stricter imigration rules. The terms emerged as an analogy to the early part of the french revolution in 17 89. If we want to understand the left and right sides of the national assembly in the french revolution, it helps us to understand what the revolutionaries on the left were trying to overthrow. But since we don't have time to go over all the books, we'll take a look at who's considered to be on the left andright in three different historical periods. First, the o g french
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