• E_coli42@lemmy.world
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    I think a better one is acceptance of change.

    • Right: Resistant to change
    • Left: Accepting of change

    Sometimes change is good, sometimes the world is not ready. I think this aligns closely with “cynical” and “naïve” but just makes it more abstract.

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      2 days ago

      The trouble being that this possibly makes the Nazis left wing, which nobody contemporary with them saw them as.

      In school this was taught to me as reactionary-conservative-progressive-radical and contrasted with left vs. right.

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      Not bad but might apply more to liberalism IMO. I think the word “accepting” (of change) is doing a lot of work when you consider revolutionary communism, whose whole mission is to force change at any cost.

      The left-right dichotomy is almost completely useless IMO. “Almost” because for some mysterious reason everybody can situation themself on it. I think it’s more about identity than anything else. Football teams.