Left-Wing, Right-Wing: The Case for Realignment of Political Labels

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3-3-2018

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Article

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Sturm College of Law

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Left-wing, Right-wing, Political labels

Abstract

Perhaps nothing contributes more to the rancor of political discourse than the indiscriminate use of political labels as partisan epithets. Labels such as “left-wing” and “right-wing,” “red state” and “blue state,” “liberal” and “conservative,” or “communist” and “fascist” have ceased to provide meaningful distinctions between competing ideologies and political movements. If such labels are ever to have any use in communicating ideas or in describing an ideology, they need to describe, at the very least, a common denominator of the people within them.

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