What is Right Wing and what is Left Wing

[MorkandMindy]

I think the historical development of the terms is a good way to get to present day usage.

Right Wing and Left Wing derive from where representatives sat in the Assemblée nationale in Paris; to the Right or Left viewed from the President's seat.


The Right Wing representatives favored a plan where the king retained as much as possible of his powers, and the Left wanted his powers reduced.


To take the idea forward I would equate the king keeping his privileges (and enormous wealth), also applied to other nobility and the aristocracy, and is wealth due to inheritance and privilege, and a stable establishment of a division of wealth and power by birth or royal favor.

The Left Wing then is in favor of a more level distribution of wealth and the abolition of a fixed system of inherited privilege.

 

[HARK!]

I put together an informative thread on the subject here just yesterday.

Christians, the Left, and the King

 

[MorkandMindy]

I use the terms 'Right Wing' and Left Wing' in an economic context only, to refer to greater or lesser differences in the distribution of income.

Right Wing morality I would call 'traditional morality' or 'Biblical morality' or use a label specifying the source of the morality.

I think it best to avoid the total chaos (freedom?) that prevents people from understanding each other (Babel?).

 

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Proverbs 4:27 = "Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil."

 

[HARK!]

I use the terms 'Right Wing' and Left Wing' in an economic context only

The Right Wing representatives favored a plan where the king retained as much as possible of his powers, and the Left wanted his powers reduced.

I'm getting mixed messages.

 

[Albion]

I think the historical development of the terms is a good way to get to present day usage.

Right Wing and Left Wing derive from where representatives sat in the Assemblée nationale in Paris; to the Right or Left viewed from the President's seat.


The Right Wing representatives favored a plan where the king retained as much as possible of his powers, and the Left wanted his powers reduced.


To take the idea forward I would equate the king keeping his privileges (and enormous wealth), also applied to other nobility and the aristocracy, and is wealth due to inheritance and privilege, and a stable establishment of a division of wealth and power by birth or royal favor.

The Left Wing then is in favor of a more level distribution of wealth and the abolition of a fixed system of inherited privilege.

The Right Wing was not about securing the wealth of the nobility as much as it was about preserving the institutions of government against the radicals.

The Left Wing originally were advocates of limited government but they, too, were forced out by the violence and intimidation of what we might call the Far Left, except that their strength was mainly not in the halls of government but in the gangs on the streets who may remind us of Antifa today and who were committed to overthrowing by force and violence EVERYTHING that even reminded one of the previous socio-political order, including nobles, priests, and right on down to the calendar, terminology, and symbolism. They were not, however, opposed to war, but saw it as a means of expanding their cause.