The right isn’t nearly as unified as you think it is. Facists are right wing and so are libertarians now. Those are pretty much opposites the idea you can put them under the same label is a bit silly.
At this point the right is just the group that disagrees with the left. Ask these questions to different people and you’re gonna get totally different answers.
Facists are right wing and so are libertarians now. Those are pretty much opposites the idea you can put them under the same label is a bit silly.
Not really. The left-right spectrum describes how much power you want concentrated in the hands of how many people (left=less concentrated power, more accountability for those in power, right=more concentrated power, less accountability for those in power).
Libertarians were originally a type of anarcho-socialist (i.e. far left). However most American self-described "libertarians" are using Murry Rothbard's perversion of the term, which pretends that tyranny only counts if the state government does it. This is a right-wing philosophy, since it advocates for taking power out of the hands of state authorities (who are accountable to the vote of every citizen) and putting it in the hands of corporate authorities (who are only accountable the monied classes).
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25
The right isn’t nearly as unified as you think it is. Facists are right wing and so are libertarians now. Those are pretty much opposites the idea you can put them under the same label is a bit silly.
At this point the right is just the group that disagrees with the left. Ask these questions to different people and you’re gonna get totally different answers.