'The Left-Right Political Spectrum Is Bogus' by Sartwell (The Atlantic): http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/the-left-right-political-spectrum-is-bogus/373139/ …
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@RadishMag in 1776, the tea party was left-wing; today, it is right. in the 19th c., libertarianism was left-wing; in the 21st, it is right. -
@RadishMag gosh if only someone had made a diagram of this… http://radishmag.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/democracy-and-the-intellectuals/#political-spectrum …
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@RadishMag monarchism isn't absolutely right wing cf. Roman History -
@bitemyapp you can't get more hierarchical than one man at the top -
@RadishMag the Roman Republicans were more hierarchical and conservative than the people that midwifed the Empire. -
@bitemyapp "For forms of government let fools contest;/Whate'er is best administered is best" (Pope) http://radishmag.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/anarcho-tyranny/#national-administration … -
@RadishMag read some Roman history. It's not that simple at all. -
@RadishMag I realize reductionism is satisfying but it just alienates you from reality. -
@RadishMag you know who loves applying reductionism to human problems? Modernists. I thought you lot knew better. -
@bitemyapp maybe you've just failed to understand the basic principle i'm describing - 8 more replies
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@Duce_a_noi monarchism is one example of a position which is right in 1600 or 2000, hence absolutely right, at least re: Anglo-Am. tradition -
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@Duce_a_noi we can throw in David Hume
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