On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:51:23 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Years ago, I came across a 'different' political spectrum, which
explains things a bit better, defining "left/right" as the degree of
governmental control in this balance.. I.e. going "left" increases
government control of the individual, making more people "equal", till
at the extreme you have a hive mentality, where each individual unit
is genetically programmed to perform a task, and all are equal (for
certain definitions of "equal". The newspeak application is left as
an exercise for the reader.
Going "right" you have more individual autonomy, more "freedom",
until (again) at the extreme, is the person who is so "free" they can
no longer communicate with other persons. This is known as "insanity"
- but it is an example of extreme individual freedom.

Hence all the right wing dictatorships supported by wingers
while liberal democracies get overthrown or invaded.
--
Cliff