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Are you left winged or right winged?

Right winged! 144 48.00%
 
Left winged! 156 52.00%
 
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JamesGoblin said:
AsGryffynn said:
I am a communist. No bonus points for guessing where that puts me...

Anything but extreme right puts you on "the left" today.

 


Lol.



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JamesGoblin said:
AsGryffynn said:
I am a communist. No bonus points for guessing where that puts me...

Anything but extreme right puts you on "the left" today.

 


and vice versa. I love how because I am a moderate I am called a fascist by the collectivist left and a communist by the collectivist right.



bouzane said:
JamesGoblin said:
AsGryffynn said:
I am a communist. No bonus points for guessing where that puts me...

Anything but extreme right puts you on "the left" today.

 


and vice versa. I love how because I am a moderate I am called a fascist by the collectivist left and a communist by the collectivist right.

That "vice versa" is quite controversial, to put it mildly. Unfortunately, the situation is far from symmetrical.

Simply, there isn't much left left (even to the point of the very term being considered archaic and redundant by some) - and one can comfortably do all kinds of left-right labeling even on the extreme right, without noticing at all that he is doing something wrong. In fact, that is quite common today - we lost the left referrence point.

PS I don't fully believe in these linear simplifications, still it gives relatively accurate image of the way I see modern political dynamics statics.





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bouzane said:
JamesGoblin said:
AsGryffynn said:
I am a communist. No bonus points for guessing where that puts me...

Anything but extreme right puts you on "the left" today.

 


and vice versa. I love how because I am a moderate I am called a fascist by the collectivist left and a communist by the collectivist right.

I don't mind centrists. I am not going to start a civil war and send people to gulags. I'll just do an study of companies with asshole owners, disown them and tell the employees they all have a share in the company and will now take the decision themselves. Replace the meeting room with a meeting chamber.

Communism is not the state ruling everything, it's all about the workers, and them having a say in what they do and how they are rewarded for it.





I am unambiguously on the Left, but my distance from the Center depends on wherever you believe the Center to be. I have never, ever been called a Conservative, but I have been called everything from a Centrist to a full-fledged Hammer-and-Sickle Communist (there are some very excitable fear-mongers in the West).  I am a Socialist, and you are free to take that however you like.  

I am however very religious/spiritual and some tend to think that's Right-Wing thinking. It's not, but I understand where that sentiment is coming from.



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Here's a poll that attempts to break this down by demographic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=212609&page=1#