Right or left?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Agathon
People who are in the centre are people will no balls.

They're like the people whose solution to ethical disagreements on matters of principle is to imagine that the opposing sides are like ingredients which can be mixed together to form an appealing bland paste.

If I had a dollar for every paper I've marked like this, I would own you.

did it ever occur to you that communism sucks?

this is why I cannot commit to it. I will never be economically left for this reason.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by General Ludd
Other people describe me as a leftist, but I don't describe myself in that way. I don't think in black and white.

No, you just think in black and blacker.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by JohnT


No, you just think in black and blacker.

There's alot more than just two shades of black.

[Agathon]

did it ever occur to you that communism sucks?

In Soviet Russia Communism sucks you.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Agathon

did it ever occur to you that communism sucks?

In Soviet Russia Communism sucks you.

Nah, that has happened every time someone has tried to implement communism.

[Gen. Atkinson]

What? Jackov Smirnov tells a bad joke?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
libertarian. which side is that on?

The right.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
I'm a social + sexual liberal & fiscal moderate

[Drogue]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
As I understand the Lib Dems, they used to be right of Labour. What happened between 1930 and today?

It's not quite just Labour moving right. The Lib Dems have a much wider spectrum than the other two parties. There are members who want to have more regulation, both environmental and workers rights, and people who want a freer market. Their defining characteristic is they want more personal and social freedom and decent public services.

I wouldn't say the Lib Dems are catagorically to the left of Labour, even New Labour, mainly more liberal.

[Agathon]

Contemporary politics is irrelevant anyway. Most of it is people squabbling over the inevitable. The economic basis of society does more to determine politics than what people claim to want.

Marx was right about that.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Agathon
Contemporary politics is irrelevant anyway. Most of it is people squabbling over the inevitable. The economic basis of society does more to determine politics than what people claim to want.

Marx was right about that.

You see certainty. I see the chaos of infinite futures.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Agathon
People who are in the centre are people will no balls.

They're like the people whose solution to ethical disagreements on matters of principle is to imagine that the opposing sides are like ingredients which can be mixed together to form an appealing bland paste.

If I had a dollar for every paper I've marked like this, I would own you.

Unlike Diss, who takes this viewpoint to mean your promoting communism(left) over i'll call it capitalism(right).

To me it shows that extremes of either left or right political belief lead to the same problem - intolerance in one form or another, which in turn leads to the death of many innocent people just trying live their short and mostly insignificant lives(in the grand scheme of things).

thats why i'm nether left or right in totality.