What does left and right wing refer to in other countries, say China or Britain, or is just individual country
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Right wing: A descriptive term for an individual or a political faction that advocates very conservative policies. Right-wing groups generally support free enterprise.\n\nLeft Wing: The people and groups who advocate liberal, often radical measures to effect change in the established order, especially in politics, usually to achieve the equality, freedom, and well-being of the common citizens of a state.\n\nThis is the meaning of the terms in almost all democratic countries. The terms come originally from the legislative seating arrangement during the French Revolution.
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Right wing = conservative (more business based and seen as upper class)\n\nleft wing = liberal (live and let live and they are seen as the working class)
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The Republicans are kissing the Communists butts everyday now over Americans. That's because the Republicans are Communist too, it's a no brainer. Wal-Mart is Communist, RCA, Thompson Electronics, Microsoft, hell it's starting to become endless. They parade them around America, and call Communism Capitalism. How can it be Capitalism when they are not even Americans. The real word is called Monopolization with no free or fair trade, and that isn't Capitalism, it's Communism. So "RED" is for the Communists that they really are. I heard this from somebody else in here. The Conservatives choose Communism over Americans; because America can and would produce any thing that we need. America doesn't need anyone to produce our products for us. They choose to be Communist for greed, over America.
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Veeery generaly speaking, the Left (liberal) and Right (conservative) of politics came out of the French Revolution.\n\nAt that time, the Left was more concerned with laws that protect people's rights, and the conservatives are more concerned with laws that protect property.  \n\nFrom this, the traditional Liberal and Conservatives have arisen.  No one politican or person exemplifies what the TRUE definition of the words are, but issue by issue, the sides of politics have been created by these factions.\n\nIf you ask me, the terms liberal and conservative are meaningless, because they can't capture the entire persons views, and a person who describes themselves as a dem, repub, liberal or conservative is doing an injustice to the political process.\n\nAll politicians agree that its not about sides, its about issues.  Not about teams, its about debate and progress.
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it should be "politcal systems" not "system". there are all types of political systems in different countries in asia.
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Actually, due to the treaty of Versailles, post WWI Germany was susceptible to many forms of totalitarianism.  There were communist, socialist as well as the group that finally won out, the National Socialist.  While the Nazis sounds like a left leaning organization, they were in fact a right leaning fascist party.  In fact, the Germans had units fighting in Spain, during the Spanish Civil war fighting for Franco and his group.
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The difference between the Left and the Right is that people on the Left have formed their political opinions scientifically--they assemble and analyze data and form conclusions based on it.  People on the Right just take whatever Rush Limbaugh makes up in his drug induced delusions as gospel, or believe whatever money grubbing corrupt crooked TV evangelists say.  The Right's economic policies were what produced the last and worst Great Depression, and their authoritarian politics are what produced the Russian, Chinese, French, Cuban, etc Revolutions.  They can not learn from history because if they could they would not be Rightists, they would support good old fashioned Franklin Delano Roosevelt New Deal Keynesian politics and economics.  At least their policies lead to collapse and disintegration, so at some point, when the Middle Class has been turned into ignorant starving peasants, the wealthy who run the Republican Party will realize, gee, we'd rather have customers who could afford to buy something, and the Rightist bull will be abandoned.
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USA: capitalist, and produces more agricultural products than the next two countries combined\n\nChina: socialist, and mines significantly more material from the earth than any other country...\n\nI'm not sure what it all means anyways...
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China is a totalitarian Communist State; and they rule with an iron fist.  They execute 8,000 political prisoners a year in China...think about that for a second...8,000 people a year kille for their political beliefs that differ from the government.  \n\nI'm happy to be an American, and hope we can keep it that way forever.
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I always remember that "left" originally meant "sinister" - so it is the Religious Right and the Liberal Leftist.  Traditionally Right is conservative and Left is Liberal.\n\nConservatives (right) are traditionally thought of as cautious, uncomfortable with too much government and are financially and/or religiously motivated.\n\nversus\n\nLiberals (left - I wonder who decided on these names...) are traditionally thought of as folks who think the government should take care of all it's people and will pass tax bills to pay for it.  They are more religiously tolerant (as long as you keep your religion to yourself) and more likely to try new things.  \n\nLiberals are thought to vote with their heart and Conservatives with their wallets.  Republicans are often considered Conservatives, while Liberals are usually the Democrats.\n\nI am more what you would call a Centerist (I can see some things are correct on both sides of the debate) and a Libertarian (I really think government should get out of our lives - if I had my way, the only law would be "If you damage someone else (physically, financially) you will be punished.  Otherwise, do what you want.")  I usually vote Democrat / Liberal.
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Log on to http://politicalcompass.jpagel.net/\n\nLiberal has many definitions, just ask Merriam-Webster. But the answer you are looking for is "left-winger" or "socialist".\n\nOn the economic scale, liberals prefer government authority to intervene and engineer the economy, to take private property through taxation and the rights of the individual through regulation, in order to create a more "fair" society. This means if I own a business, and you own nothing, you are somehow entitled to the money I earn.\n\nOn the social scale, liberals prefer less government authority, in other words, they wish to legalize all behavior which is considered to be immoral and is currently illegal. (such as the use of hard drugs, all forms of gambling, all forms of sexual perversion). On the one hand, they like government intervention when it suits thier pocketbook, but they dislike it when the government restricts thier addictive behaviors.\n\nThese definitions may seem to have a conservative bias to them. However, we are only speaking in generalities. There are "liberal" groups which I support, such as People for the ethical treatment of animals (PETA), and non-biased environmentalist groups. I also do not support government regulation of our freedom of speech.\n\nSome would consider the so-called right to be liberal, because conservatives are in favor of the free market, or laizee-faire (sp?) capitalism. They support the right to own private property and engage in private business. Privacy is a very liberal concept, whereas statism (public regulation) is a very communist (authoritarian) concept.\n\nAnd while most conservatives frown on many different kinds of immoral behavior, we all support the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair and speedy trial, the right to an attorney, the right to appeal, the right to a jury of your peers, and all other constitutional rights, which makes us the most progressive people on the planet, unless you consider child pornography or drug abuse "progress" or "enlightened".\n\nThat might help you understand the difference between left-wing authoritarianism and liberalism, as well as the difference between the so-called left and the so-called right.\n\nLiberals, before you attack me, go to the link provided above, and fill out the simple questionaire. On the political spectrum, I am an absolute centrist, not left-winger or a right-winger, nor am I an authoritarian nor a libertarian. Therefore I am neither extremist nor biased.\n\nThere is no such thing as a simple dichotomy between liberals and conservatives. The fact is, the definitions overlap all too frequently to declare one to be completely opposed to the other.\nThere is more to politics than "Democrat good, Republican bad".\n\nIf you are a moderate you support neither extreme liberalism nor extreme communism (they are directly opposed, one supports total freedom, the other total government), which would make you a conservative, which definiton means "moderate" or "rational". I would define conservatism as centrism and objectivism (look it up).\n\nThis does not mean all people who are labeled "conservative" are moderate or rational. There are plenty of theocrats out there who believe that thier view of God and only thier view should be law. There are plenty of "conservatives" who are actually libertarians who want to legalize and deregulate everything, which would be both a disaster for the environment, and for our moral standards.\n\nFootnote:\nIf all you can do is attack me for my opinion, then you are not a liberal, because liberals are supposed to be open-minded and tolerant people. Why so much hatred, then? I don't hate liberals. I just disagree with political extremism on the left and the right.
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left. most of these post/answers are to lame to come from a right winger....
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besides "left" and "right"???
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Well it all depends on which country you are referring to
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__Definitions\n\n  The term "First World" refers to so called developed, capitalist, industrial countries, roughly, a bloc of countries aligned with the United States after word war II, with more or less common political and economic interests: North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia. \n\nFirst World - Industrialized Countries, within the Western European and United States' Sphere of Influence \nNATO Member States during the Cold War \n   \nBelgium, Canada, Denmark, \nFrance,  Germany (West), Greece, \nIceland, Italy, Luxembourg, \nNetherlands, Norway, Portugal, \nSpain (since 1982), Turkey, United Kingdom,\nUSA     \n      \nUS Aligned States     \nIsrael Japan Korea (South) \n      \nFormer British Colonies     \nAustralia New Zealand   \n      \nNeutral and more or less industrialized capitalist countries \nAustria  Ireland Sweden \nSwitzerland   \n\n\n\n  "Second World" refers to the former communist-socialist, industrial states, (formerly the Eastern bloc, the territory and sphere of influence of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic) today: Russia, Eastern Europe (e.g., Poland) and some of the Turk States (e.g., Kazakhstan) as well as China.\n\n Second World Country List \n Country formerly part of: Region \nAlbania * Southern Europe \nArmenia Soviet Union Western Asia \nAzerbaijan Soviet Union Western Asia \nBelarus Soviet Union Eastern Europe \nBosnia and Herzegovina Yugoslavia Southern Europe \nBulgaria   Eastern Europe \nCroatia (Hrvatska) Yugoslavia Southern Europe \nCzech Republic Czechoslovakia Eastern Europe \nEstonia annexed by Soviet Union** Northern Europe \nGeorgia Soviet Union Western Asia \nEast Germany   Western Europe \nHungary   Eastern Europe \nKazakhstan Soviet Union South-Central Asia \nKyrgyzstan Soviet Union South-Central Asia \nLatvia annexed by Soviet Union** Northern Europe \nLithuania annexed by Soviet Union** Northern Europe \nMacedonia Yugoslavia Southern Europe \nMoldova Soviet Union Eastern Europe \nPoland   Eastern Europe \nRomania   Eastern Europe \nRussia Soviet Union Northern Europe/Asia \nSerbia and Montenegro Yugoslavia Southern Europe \nSlovakia Czechoslovakia Eastern Europe \nSlovenia Yugoslavia Southern Europe \nTajikistan Soviet Union South-Central Asia \nTurkmenistan Soviet Union South-Central Asia \nUkraine Soviet Union Eastern Europe \nUzbekistan Soviet Union South-Central Asia \n \n\n(Formerly) Communist States in Asia *** \nChina   Eastern Asia \nKorea (North) Korea Eastern Asia \nLao PDR   South East Asia \nMongolia**** China, until 1921 Eastern Asia \nViet Nam (North)   South East Asia \n\n \n "Third World" are all the other countries, today often used to roughly describe the developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America.\nThe term Third World includes as well capitalist (e.g., Venezuela) and communist (e.g., North Korea) countries as very rich (e.g., Saudi Arabia) and very poor (e.g., Mali) countries.\n\n\n\n \n  The term "Fourth World" first came into use in 1974 with the publication of Shuswap Chief George Manuel's:  The fourth world : an Indian reality (amazon link to the book), the term refers to nations (cultural entities, ethnic groups) of indigenous peoples living within or across state boundaries (nation states).
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depends on where you are-\n\nin the USA it is on the left\n\nin Europe it is on the right
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First, second and third world are how some organized the international situation during post-WW2 Cold War era. \n\nFirst World refers to the capatalist, Western/US led bloc including countries like the UK, West Germany, South Africa, France, Australia, Japan, and many others.\n\nSecond World refers to the Soviet bloc and other communist countries led by the USSR and including countries like China, Poland, East Germany, Cuba, Vietnam, and many others again.\n\nThird World refers to countries that were aligned with neither bloc, like India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Argentina, and many, many other countries that are even poorer than these.\n\n\nBecause the majority of third world countries were poor it has come to refer to countries with a low human development index today, and is an outdated term since the world is not aligned into three "worlds" any longer.\n\nFirst world now refers to countries that are on the contrast, owners of a high human delevopment index.\n\nSecond world doesn't exist any longer.