Does what's left or right on the political compass depend on the political mean, medain, and mod of the region the test was created?
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Grayson Morales
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Cooper Cruz
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Caleb Gomez
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Luke Morris
Unlike the "alternative right", which represented something new in its (schizophrenic and opportunistic) rejection of censorship and warmongering, leftism has always been defined by its consistent championing of free expression and pacifism. Indeed, the very thing the aut-right most rails against, "political correctness", was (much like "SJW") coined by genuine leftists as a slur against ruthless careerism within communism in the early 1900s.
The SJWs are the "alt-left". We are merely leftists, as the left has been from its enlightenment origins.
Someone can be "to the left" or "to the right" of someone else, sure. The spectrum extends from the far-right of its foundation under feudalism, past today's struggles to achieve socialism.
John Davis
I believe the question is correct.
I also think the majority people of America who are left of the mean, median, and mod aren't communists/socialists. And I define alt-left as alternive left wing ideology with vast differences from the mainstream left wing ideology.
Basically I think communists/socialists in America are alt-left. At least until the mainstream left wing ideology dies.
Benjamin Turner
Correct
There is no mainstream leftism in the US today. Even the furthest left factions with any mainstream support in the Democratic Party are far to the right of mainstream right-wing parties in the rest of the 1st-world.
Hopefully that can be changed with a revitalization of the powerful organized labor that formed the engine of robust American socialism from the late 1800s, but until then there is no mainstream left in the country.
Nathaniel Hill
Mate, the fact socialism/communism isn't mainstream in America makes me call it alternative, and because most of time socialism/communism are left wing, I call it left wing.
So alt-left.
Wyatt Lopez
Since no one seems to answer your question, I'll give you mine:
Left/right was mainly used during the french revolution to encompass the supporters of the monarchy (right wing) and the revolutionaries who wanted to abolish the monarchy (left wing). The so called "libertarian + left/right" is also misleading, given that "Libertarian" was first used by Joseph Dejaque (an ancom himself) circa the mid 19th century to define his ideology and was later bastardized by Murray Cuckbard to give his shitty ideology an edgier name.
What's the problem with the political compass? It tries to use the term "libertarian" as it's own spectrum, when in reality libertarian is a fancier term for anarcho-communist (the french government back then labeled anarchist as "terrorist"). Right "libertarianism" is an oxymoron, since it's just merely virtue signalled capitalism. The proper term for right "libertarianism" is liberalism.
Left/right on economics merely defines who is in control of the economy/means of production (either capitalism or socialism; there's no third position, as much as nazifags and nazbolfags want you to believe). Stalin is considered left wing because of anti-communist propaganda by the anglo-sphere, yet there was never a worker's control of the economy and worker's autonomy/state.
Long-story-short: The political compass and the one dimensional political spectrum is very anglo-centric; basically capitalism = good, socialism = bad. Tankies/nazbols/strasserites are just national capitalists; spooked/idpolled capitalism.
Bentley Wright
SJW's are a cancer definitely, but I wouldn't consider them to be the "Alt-left". The "Alt-Right" is usually defined as Far Right groups with White Identify/Supremacy being at the core of their beliefs. The left wing equivalent of that would be the Nazbols.