About a year ago I gave up trying to define “left,” “right,” “liberal,” and “conservative.” The concepts are too nebulous, and people have strong incentives to distort their meanings. There’s no stable “there” there. This has been wonderfully liberating.
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Replying to @KevinSimler
Exactly! Those terms are dead, as are their "neo-" prefixes. But what are your takes on "red-brown," "fascist," "authoritarian," "tankie," "classic liberal," "communist"? Are there _any_ good monikers out there?
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Replying to @rtoal
I think the monikers may be important if you’re trying to understand the current political moment. I’m not, so I don’t find them useful.
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Replying to @KevinSimler
Oh, right, I see what you're saying. As an aside: these labels remind me of quantum. Many can't understand, e.g., blended capitalism+socialism so they throw out one of the two words (usually as a pejorative) and the whole "label" collapses into a single point on the extremity.
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yeah that’s exactly the problem. and everyone blows out the terms in different ways :(
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