Has anyone ever seen the graphic portraying the left and the right?

[GSLevel9]

I remember seeing it somewhere and it was a curve and the ends of the curve met. This was a graphic made by trained sociologists that basically suggested that if you go far right enough, you meet the far left or vice versa. The graphic also has notations such as conservative, neocon, liberal, etc...

Ring any bells?

[rfranklin]

1. yes, it's bullshit...

as in cow manure.

[GSLevel9]

3. so in effect... Hitler and Stalin were very "different"? nt

[rfranklin]

14. No they were both totalitarians...

and as such their only political allegiance was to total power.

[drmeow]

2. Here's a link to an article

http://www.oicu2.com/afc/leftright.html

[Hamlette]

7. except that says the right leads to total freedom and the left leads to total control

the one I remember was about the french revolution which was pretty true then.

[drmeow]

10. However the wheel they

refer to is, I think, the one you are thinking about. The way they interpret it is wrong. I can't find the original - I thought I had a paper copy - but the broken circle concept is that anarchy and true communism (as Marx envisioned) are actually very similar in execution.

[devilgrrl]

13. Wow. That graphic sent Bullshit-O-Meter flying through the window the second the page finished...

loading.

That was quick!

[bbinacan]

4. I remember seeing that in

a psych class back in the 80s.

[L0oniX]

5. Try this one...

[Hamlette]

8. that doesn't say right meets left

I remember the right meeting left discussions in conjunction with the french revolution from history classes at school. Which of course is the classic example. The kings were tyrants but the revolutionaries were too.

[GSLevel9]

9. that graphic is significantly different than those of which I speak. nt

[devilgrrl]

15. If the right doesn't interfer with society or individuals as they like to assert...

I'll eat my hat.

I'm so sick of that lie.

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[jody]

6. Interesting conjecture because marxism and fascism had the same philosophical roots. Both tout

supremacy of the state over individual rights and freedoms.

Hitler and Stalin had similar goals "state control" so it's understandable that the fringes might coalesce.

[drmeow]

11. This doesn't have the wheel

but may be getting at the same point

http://rationalrevolution.net/articles/redefining_the_political_spectru.htm

edited to add link

[petronius]

12. I've seen it, but I always thought that a better interpretation was that, if you

go far enough in either direction, you run into a degree of bugfuck nuttery that defies classification. But simply saying they're the same seems to obscure important details about an individual's path and evolution in getting to that position.

I think the two-dimensional model (left-right, authoritarian-libertarian) like in the Political Compass is more informative...

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