less_retarded_wiki/left_right.md

Left Vs Right

Left and right are two basic opposing political sides that roughly come down to the pro-equality (left) and pro-hierarchy (right). There is a lot of confusion and vagueness about these terms, so let us now define them as used on this wiki:

• The (true) left is pro social equality, i.e. against social hierarchies. This includes equality of all living beings, period. Note that social equality does NOT imply people being made (or being made to appear) equal in other ways, e.g. physically -- true left accepts difference between people and races and doesn't hide them. Even if the perfectly ideally leftist society can't be completely achieved, true left tries to get as close to it as possible. The values of true left are for example sharing, love, selflessness, altruism, forgiveness and nonviolence. Groups and movements that are at least highly truly leftist include anarcho pacifism, free software, free culture and of course LRS.
• The right is pro social hierarchy, i.e. against social equality. This means some people standing above others, be it by strength, power, wealth, social status, privileges etc. The rightist values are mostly those associated with evil, i.e. violence, oppression, conflict, war, revenge, survival of the fittest etc. Among rightism can be included fascism, capitalism, US republican party, states, the military etc.
• The pseudoleft is pretending to be left while in fact being right due to e.g. using non-leftist means (such as violence) or even having non-leftist goals (e.g. benefit of specific minority as opposed to benefit of everyone). Among pseudoleftist movements are feminism, LGBT, Antifa or Marxism. This fact is also supported by the naming of these movements.

There exists a "theory" called a horse shoe. It says that the extremes of the left-right spectrum tend to be alike (violent, hating, radical), just as the two ends of a horse shoe. This is only an illusion caused by ignoring the existence of pseudoleft. The following diagram shows the true situation:

TRUE LEFT (peace, selflessness, forgiveness, ...)
     <-------------------.
               /          \
              |            |  <== illusion of horse shoe
              |            |
               \          /
                V        V
           PSEUDOLEFT  RIGHT
    (violence, conflict, aggressivity, ...)

We see pseudoleft is something that began as going away from the right but slowly turned around back to its values, just from a slightly different direction. This is because rightism is very easy, it offers tempting short-term solutions such as violence, and so it exhorts a kind of magnetic force on every human -- most cannot resist and only very few get to the true left despite this force.

What's called left in the modern western culture usually means pseudoleft. The existence of pseudoleftism is often overlooked or unknown. It used to be found mainly in the US, however globalization spreads this cancer all over the world. Pseudoleft justifies its actions with a goal that may seem truly leftist, such as "equality", but uses means completely unacceptable by true left (which are in fact incompatible with equality), such as violence, bullying, lynching, cancelling, censorship or brainwashing. Pseudoleft is aggressive. It believes that "ends justify the means" and that "it's fine to bully a bully" ("eye for an eye"). A pseudoleftist movement naturally evolves towards shifting its goals from a leftist one such as equality towards a fascist one such as a (blind) fight for some group's rights (even if that group may already have achieved equality and more).

The difference between left and pseudoleft can be shown in many ways; one of them may be that pseudoleft always wants to fight something, usually the right (as they're essentially the same, i.e. natural competitiors). True left wants to end all fights. Pseudoleft invents bullshit artificial issues such as political correctness that sparks conflict, as it lives by conflict. Left tries to find peace by solving problems. Pseudoleft sees it as acceptable to do bad things to people who commited something it deems bad. True left knows that violence creates violence, it "turns the other cheek", it cures hate with love.

Why is there no pseudoright? Because it doesn't make sense :) Left is good, right is a sincere evil and pseudoleft is an evil pretending to be good. A good pretending to be evil doesn't probably exist in any significant form.