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4. How Political Definitions Shape Reality
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Left Versus Right - What Is the Difference?
Left wing libertarian socialists and right wing libertarian capitalists both oppose the state, but for completely different reasons. Focusing on big versus small government is like if you had a bunch of red guns and blue guns, and then a bunch ofRed vs Blue: pudding brain. The actual conflict is about what we should be doing with the government - promoting or protecting hierarchies? You can apply everything i just said about big versus smallGovernment to the individual versus the collective definition. They are clear opposites, so it's coherent, but they don't reflect a real cleavage between political forces.
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