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| | Far right - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The imprecise use of the terms "left" and "right" in politics, and there being no absolute consensus as to what the "archetypes" of left and right are, has led to a number of disputes over the proper usage of "far-right" and "far-left" other than as general terms of derision. | | | The terms "left" and "right" used in this way arose during the French Revolution. | | | In his essay "Left and Right: the Prospects for Liberty" [1] and "Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal" [2], Murray Rothbard even put libertarianism on the "left", claiming that conservatives are the right and socialists merely "middle-of-the road". |
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| | Libertarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Libertarian perspectives on animal rights: A small number of libertarians grant basic rights to animals (they count as individuals and therefore have the right not to be subjected to coercion), while others see animals as property, and think their owners are free to treat them as they wish. | | | Libertarianism is often viewed as a right-wing philosophy, especially by non-libertarians in the United States and Canada, where libertarians tend to have more in common with traditional conservatives than liberals, especially with regards to economic and gun control policies. | | | Many libertarians, including the Libertarian Party of the United States and New Zealand's Libertarianz Party, consider the Statue of Liberty to be an important symbol of their ideas. |
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| | Jan Narveson - Libertarianism: A Philosophical Introduction |
| | All of these objections to both left and right stem from the same source: opposition to imposing by force on individuals except, alone, for punishment of interpersonal imposition of harm. | | | The "left" libertarian holds that the right of private property for individuals is either nonexistent or very much less than absolute, and that society needs to bring about a measure of equality in the distribution of certain things, usually natural resources, perhaps providing, to that end, a social minimum. | | | When crimes are committed, the victims or their representatives (as in the case of murder) have a motivation, and given the libertarian principle the right, to restitution from their aggressors, and this restitution may indeed be compelled. |
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| | www.BlackCrayon.com: Dictionary: Definitions |
| | A centrist believes that there is a left side and a right side, and that the healthy position is in the center. | | | The Old Left, flourishing in the United States in the 1930's and 40's, may best be summed up as Social Democracy... | | | Most on the left think of themselves, and probably sincerely, as "democratic socialists," as believers in a blend of socialism. |
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| | Philosophy, et cetera: Left-Libertarianism |
| | But this cannot work for the liberty-based libertarian (who my objection here is aimed at), for he takes liberty as fundamental, and derives rights from that. | | | Most libertarians are right-libertarians: they hold the unprincipled view that natural resources may be appropriated by some so as to leave none left over for others. | | | Thus understood, libertarians hold that individuals own themselves, and so may not be used or damaged without their consent. |
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| | Critiques Of Libertarianism |
| | Cypherpunks, high-tech libertarians, and various others mistakenly think technology will eliminate the need for government (if not outright eliminate government.) | | | Libertarians frequently parrot bizarre pseudolegal formulas or selective histories to justify militias, common law courts, sovereign citizenship, immunity from taxes, etc. They also adopt many right wing criticisms of modern court interpretations of the Constitution. | | | Most libertarians are opposed to taxes, and make various arguments why they should be "equal" and not progressive. |
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| | http://www.qando.net/ - Thoughts on Left libertarianism |
| | And that is why "left libertarian", by percieving the left as being pro-personal freedoms and wanting to be diametrically opposed to the "war mongering", fundamentalist christian, moral police state side of issues they percieve to be on the right, is a valid label to that way of looking at things. | | | If libertarianism, as it is understood today, is based in the individual and his/her rights, it would seem to me that the further you go to the left, the farther you move away from that base premise. | | | The terms "right" and "left" are used metaphorically to equate "republican party" and "democratic party", respectfully. |
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| | Left libertarianism |
| | "less gov't" is a handily ambiguous term, embraced by both the left and the right. | | | Libertarians of both the right and left varieties, and anarchists too, I suppose, believe that society must progress organically (i.e. | | | I see the left and right designations as saying a lot about whether you are in favour of equality or not. |
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| | New Left - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The New Left opposed the prevailing authority structures in society, which it termed "The Establishment," and those who rejected this authority became known as "anti-Establishment." The New Left avoided recruiting industrial workers, and concentrated on a social activist approach to organizing. | | | Mills argued for a new leftist ideology, moving away from the traditional ("Old Left") focus on labor issues, towards more personalized issues such as opposing alienation, anomie, authoritarianism, and other ills of the modern affluent society. | | | The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975: A Brief History with Documents Bedford St. Martin's, 2004). |
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| | Liberty And Culture |
| | According to the left, the few thugs and jihadists, whose daily terrorist bombings kill scores of Iraqis, are the authentic indigenous freedom fighters not the 100,000 men in the Iraqi security force trying to bring stability to their country. | | | The influence of the extreme left on the whole of the Democratic Party and mainstream media is achieved not by the doctrinal conversion of sizeable number of the honest and sincere loyal opposition; but the influence has gripped our friends on the left more than they had realized and realized by the average citizen. | | | His far left core gets his underlying message, loud and clear, as he explicitly contradicts that message in a desperate attempt to gain late-deciding voters. |
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| | Left, Right, Vital Center |
| | On almost all social issues, starting with Third World immigration, feminism, and civil rights, neoconservatives are far closer to the Left than they are to the Old Right. | | | Even on the few issues that the far Left and Old Right share common ground, they still have many disagreements. | | | In his economics textbooks, Paul Samuelson complained that the "new radical right allied with the Chicago school" which is really "a form of anarchism" and the radical left "join together in their attack on conventional economics." These two groups are the same, according to Samuelson, because they both dont like bureaucrats. |
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| | frontline: testing our schools: no child left behind PBS |
| | A brief summary of the testing and accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, which was signed by President Bush on Jan. 8, 2002. | | | The No Child Left Behind Act is an extension and revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). | | | Congress set aside $400 million to help states develop and administer the tests that the No Child Left Behind Act mandated for children in grades 3-8. |
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| | Hit and Run |
| | Comment by: Rikurzhen at January 20, 2005 06:23 PM It is rarely understood that the 'right' libertarian property law structure is the MOST compatibile system with 'leftist' moral goals. | | | Aside from the occasional use of "right libertarian" to mean "classically liberal minarchist" versus "left libertarian" as "socialist who likes porn", it's a rather meaningless distinction, as it comes down to the variance in pet issues among people who largely agree on basic premises. | | | Comment by: Jason Ligon at January 20, 2005 05:58 PM It seems odd to talk about new-fangled "left libertarianism" when in fact the libertarian socialist movement is much older than America's version with its emphasis on markets and private property and its reverence towards classical liberal ideals. |
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| | Left-wing politics - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | The "left" of 1789 would, in some ways be part of the present-day "right", liberal with regard to the rights of property and intellect, but not embracing notions of distributive justice, rights for organized labor, etc. | | | The "New Left" has had varying degrees of unity since its rise in the 1960s, and can be seen as a coalition of numerous distinct movements, including (but not limited to) feminists, greens, some labor unions, some atheists, some gay rights activists, and some minority ethnic and racially oriented civil rights groups. | | | When the National Assembly first met, the reformers sat on the left side of the meeting hall, while supporters of monarchy and nobility sat on the right. |
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| | The Left Coaster |
| | Miers was against a law that left the regulation of attorney fees in the hands of the legislature, and instead argued that only a conservative-stacked Texas Supreme Court should regulate trial lawyers. | | | It turns out that, contrary to the nice words Reid tossed her way about being open minded towards trial lawyers, Miers actually trashed them back in Texas, and actually advocated for “judicial supremacy” to allow the state Supreme Court sole discretion over trial attorneys. | | | In other words, she supported legislating from the bench when it comes to consumer protection attorneys. |
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| | Eschaton |
| | But, currently there seems to be this general notion floating around that if only the "secular left" would be a bit nicer to people who are trying to put prayer in their schools and take control of their daughters' uterus then more people would vote for Democrats. | | | Former Arizona Cardinal Pat Tillman, who left behind a lucrative contract to sign up for the military, died in Afghanistan. | | | She pushed to give the court power to authorize physical searches as well as electronic monitoring, and surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act more than doubled during the Clinton administration. |
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| | out of step: Defining Left Libertarianism |
| | Incidentally, though, a fact that both left and right should be aware of: the term "libertarian" was originally just a euphamism for anarchist and therefore implied socialism of one kind or another. | | | This is because the right has hijacked the libertarian rhetoric of self-reliance, individualism, and free markets(and was enabled to do so by the statist turn the left took at the turn of the century). | | | The Left Libertarian knows better, and will point out that the wage system as we know it can only exist when capital has secured privelages from the state to protect itself from competition. |
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| | The Australian far left |
| | There have been a number of developments in the far left in Australia over the past six months that warrant a review and some discussion. | | | The state of the far left in Australia, an overview and some documents | | | Nevertheless, it is by far the healthiest of all the far left groups: open to ideas and argument and far less sectarian towards the mass labour movement than the DSP, which is for practical purposes its main rival. |
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| | reviewjournal.com -- News: Father, mother grieve for 3-year-old left in hot ... |
| | Christian Olsen's parents thought that loving gesture, along with his hand squeezing, meant he was going to survive despite being left alone in a van in triple-digit temperatures. | | | Police have not specified whether they believe the child was left in the van knowingly or unknowingly. | | | A key factor in past cases has been whether the person responsible for the child knowingly left the child unattended. |
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| | Threat posed to democracy by extremist parties and movements in Europe |
| | Left wing extremism has beenidentified asthe main enemy as globalised corporate capitalism and the treat of globalisation, gaining some popular support, but losing the sharpness of social revolutionary goals in their own country. | | | Extremism is a refutation to the rights of others. | | | Limitations to this freedom, necessary in a democratic society, must be prescribed by law in proportion to the danger of extremism and made with a clear purpose of ensuring equality and freedom for everyone. |
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| | HungryBlues: old left/new left |
| | As the fifties came to a close and the first stirrings of a new left emerged I was involved with CORE and the organizing of the Committee For A Sane Nuclear Policy. | | | The CIO was split and the traditional antagonisms on the left had taken a turn toward suicidal meanness. | | | At right is the top half of page 1 (click on image for the full sized image on the MS Department of Archives and History website). |
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| | Leftism |
| | Naturally, in all cases "left" and "right" are relative. | | | Equality, social justice, labor rights and trade unionism, concern for the poor, working class solidarity and | | | Left wing can also refer to a player's position in sports such as soccer and ice hockey. |
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| | DevGuru CSS2: left |
| | The left property sets the physical distance of how far the left content edge of an element is to the right from the left content edge of the containing block. | | | The length value sets the distance between the left content edges and can be in any of the following seven units. | | | Note that if the position property is set to the static value, setting the left property has no effect. |
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| | Dan Lynch Online :: View topic - The Left Wing of Libertarianism |
| | Under this regime, the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party, and the US Democratic Party are on the left, while the Conservative Party and the US Republican Party are on the right. | | | Roughly speaking, traditional, rural, religious, and fiscally conservative ideas are assigned to the right end of the continuum, and progressive, urban, secular, and socially liberal ideas are assigned to the left. | | | Has nothing to do with the orthogonalagous (neologism?) qualities you were talking about, in fact this lot seems distinctly dodgy; but it's about nominal "left libertarianism", so... |
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| | ECS: No Child Left Behind |
| | The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, the revised Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is a potent blend of new requirements, incentives and resources, and it poses significant challenges for states. | | | The database does not include planned and implemented programs approved by the U.S. Department as required by No Child Left Behind, but that are not yet reflected in final state policy. | | | "The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of states' progress toward implementing the No Child Left Behind Act, is available on our Web site. |
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| | Marxism and the British Labour Party |
| | We have always had the perspective that an influx into the party would strengthen the left reformists, and under certain conditions, a centrist current. | | | The Real Labour candidate was supported by an overwhelming majority of the Broad Left, which embraces the activists of the Liverpool Labour Party, who are currently excluded from the official party. | | | This will only come about on the basis of events which would impel the trade union rank and file, youth, tenants, and other sections into the Labour Party. |
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| | Upper Left |
| | Suffice it to say that unless the Left for some reason doesn't care about the interests of poor people and unpopular minority groups, John Kerry is offering them quite a bit more than nothing. | | | Anyway, I set up a Majority Makers page, and if you'd like to help Upper Left move cross country for a few days to blog the convention, this is your chance. | | | Along the way, we've moved into the top.03% of the sites monitored by Technorati, and this morning I notice that Upper Left is slotted in the 101st position in the Blogdex rankings. |
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| | How Far Left Can the Left Really Go? -- Opinion Central -- GOPUSA |
| | (They could call it exercising their right to choose, but that choice isn't acceptable to the Left.) The only way to legislate it away would be to mandate that all children must be raised in State-run daycare centers... | | | The No Child Left behind Act will force the system to actually educate children, although school vouchers would put the power to hold school systems accountable directly into the hands of the parents. | | | The proposed Constitutional amendment to define marriage was done in a perfectly legal manner, and was defeated fairly in the Senate. |
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| | Left-wing politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The left is against hierarchy and authority, strict adherence to tradition, monoculturalism, privilege for the wealthy, and other values commonly associated with the political right. | | | National Assembly first met, the reformers set on the left side of the meeting hall, while supporters of monarchy and nobility sat on the right. | | | Naturally, in all cases "left" and "right" are relative. |
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| | Far-left - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Groups that advocate some form of revolution without being egalitarian, are generally not part of the far left, and may indeed be far right. | | | Between groups on the far-left, depending on a group's militancy and the given political circumstances, revolutionary change may be achieved through democratic or authoritarian, violent or nonviolent means. | | | The far-left and the Radical Left often overlap in terms of belief, tactics, strategy and organizational affiliation, but the far-left is a more general term that can include groups and politics that the Radical Left in particular might explicitly oppose and denounce. |
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