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EXTREME LEFT
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FAR LEFT
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LEFT to CENTER LEFT
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CENTER LEFT to CENTER
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CENTER to CENTER RIGHT |
RIGHT
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RIGHT
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SYSTEM OR MOVEMENT --------> |
Communism
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National Socialism
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Social Democrats & Radical Theocracies
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Moderates (Including Republics & Monarchies With Power In A Popular Electorate)
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Monarchies Or Equivalent Without Vested Safeguards
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Conservative Theocracies
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Systems Where Vested Rights Are Sacred
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Examples |
(Lenin's Russia, Chairman Mao's China, North Korea) |
(Hitler's Germany, Clinton's puppets in Haiti, Iraq) |
(Modern Sweden, Fabian Britain, LBJ's Great Society, Modern Iran & America under Clinton)
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(Germany under Kohl, America under Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, etc..)
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(Modern Japan, Iran under Shah; Modern Britain, Netherlands or Spain, when the more Conservative parties dominate.)
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(Puritan Massachusetts, Spain Under Inquisition, Saudi Arabia)
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(England--off and on--from Magna Carta until Popular Government intervened; America from 1776 til 1860; brief shining moments in the history of other lands.)
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Family Rights & Responsibility For Children |
Families have no Rights. Children belong to Collective.
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Family Rights (including inheritance) depend upon standing with Government. Children belong to Collective.
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Family Rights limited by what is Politically Correct. Inheritance under attack. Children's values determined by Collective. |
Some erosion of Family Rights. Children's Education mixed responsibility with Central Direction.
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Family Rights more respected. Children's Education mixed responsibility.
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Family Rights respected, so long as Mandated Religion accepted. Children's Education parental responsibility under clerical supervision.
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Semi- autonomous Families--Children's Education parent's responsibility--Inheritance rights sacred.
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Family Rights & Responsibility For Children |
Property Rights |
All Property held in Common.
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Property nominally private, but must be used as Monolithic State dictates.
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May be some Nationalization, yet most property private. Usage controlled in many particulars by collectivist State.
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Private property rights respected, but some controls for social objectives.
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Private property rights respected, but some controls for social objectives.
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Private property rights respected, but subject to controls as to religiously proscribed actions.
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Governmental role as to private property: To protect same with rights of peaceful enjoyment and inheritance.
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Property Rights |
Ethos & Perspective |
Ultimate Authority=Masses. Utilitarian--Everything centrally planned--no tolerance for eccentricity. Institutions from past repudiated. Belief in human plasticity--uniformity, with selective exclusions. New Order of masses to replace past social forms. Ends justify means. Truth no virtue.
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Ultimate Authority=Might. Utilitarian--Centrally planned--no tolerance for eccentricity. Kindness, honor & chivalry repudiated. Belief in human plasticity--uniformity, with selective exclusions. New Order (based upon monolithic mass support) replaces traditional society. Ends justify almost any means. Truth no virtue.
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Ultimate Authority=numbers, ie. "Democracy," in form denounced by Madison. Utilitarian--More tolerant, but looks to evolving New Order: Social Engineering premised on human plasticity. Willing to cut ethical corners--more tolerant of public lies than those to the right. |
Ultimate Authority=Confused. Mixed Utilitarian & Moral--More respect for heritage, but compromises with Left for reform. Looks in both directions without clear sense of issues. Generally: Rejects evil means, upholds concept of truth; but in quandary as to corrupt public servants.
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Ultimate Authority=God, but man interprets. Mixed Utilitarian & Moral--Greater respect for heritage, but insufficient resolve to build adequate safeguards against Left. Generally: Believes in integrity of action; but still in quandary as to corrupt public servants.
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Ultimate Authority=God, but man interprets. Moral--Values & Perspective skewed by theological concerns. Usually conservative, celebrating heritage and family, often with more understanding of religious argument than dynamics of social interaction. If not corrupt, can handle corrupt public servants.
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Ultimate Authority=God. Moral--Ongoing social dynamic, builds on achievements, wisdom and understanding, generation by generation. Accepts diversity, vast inequality of man. Honors forebears & heroes--role models for future--personal integrity, honor, pursuit of truth and knowledge (positive values), & chivalric code. No incentive for corruption.
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Intellectual Freedom |
No intellectual freedom. Suppression of all dissent & religion.
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No intellectual freedom. Suppression of all dissent & most religious activity that challenges moral authority of monolithic State.
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Some intellectual freedom, but gradual erosion in favor of what is politically correct. Educational system biased against traditional values, historic achievement.
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Slower erosion of intellectual freedom, but similar trend to Social Democrats, because of lack of clear focus on what Left is doing. Gradual corruption of educational system.
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Generally tolerant of intellectual freedom, so long as not seditious.
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Can be very tolerant of intellectual freedom (even serve as repository of learning) that does not threaten theology; but restrictive as to what is deemed sensitive.
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In cherishing the individual, provides maximum incentive to intellectual development and free inquiry.
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Right To Local Self Government |
Local Governments puppets of Central Authority.
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Local Government merely Administrative Units of Monolithic Central Government.
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Tolerates State & Local Government, but only as subservient to value dictating Central Government. |
Much more tolerant of local rights; still willing to over-rule same for Centralized Social Objectives.
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About same as Republican Centrists.
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Tolerant of Local Rights, so long as no dissent on Theological Imperatives.
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Most Government functions, local. In original U. S. (Federal Union of delegated powers), Police Power concern only of very varied State Societies.*
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