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Unlocked: Myth of the Month 6: Political Left and Right

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Left and Right in Politics

left and right took a long time to get out of france, you know. It didn't fit so naturally. And similarly, in the united states, right, left versus right only gradually came into political terminology in the 19 thirties, forties and fifties. So how did this happen? How does it what happened in the meantime that made it possible for,. eventually, this conceptual scheme to be embraced by people beyond, beyond france, in other democratic republican societies?

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