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| | # The Libertarian Left (Modern liberals such as Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader would fall into this quadrant) - Modern liberals believe that government has no right invading people's personal lives (as long as they aren't harming others) but favour more government intervention in the economy to reduce poverty and to promote equality. | | # The Libertarian Left (Modern liberals such as Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader would fall into this quadrant) - Modern liberals believe that government has no right invading people's personal lives (as long as they aren't harming others) but favour more government intervention in the economy to reduce poverty and to promote equality. |
| | # The Authoritarian Right (Modern conservatives and at the more extreme end, fascists) - The authoritarian right promotes free market economics but believes that people's personal lives should be strictly regulated. Conservatives such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Margaret Thatcher are in this quadrant. Fascists such as Augusto Pinochet are also included in this quadarant but are at the most extreme ends, while conservatives tend to fall between centrist and moderate authoritarian. | | # The Authoritarian Right (Modern conservatives and at the more extreme end, fascists) - The authoritarian right promotes free market economics but believes that people's personal lives should be strictly regulated. Conservatives such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Margaret Thatcher are in this quadrant. Fascists such as Augusto Pinochet are also included in this quadarant but are at the most extreme ends, while conservatives tend to fall between centrist and moderate authoritarian. |
| − | * The Authoritarian Left - This column includes conservative socialists and communists. They believe that both the economy and public behaviour should be controlled, at least partially by the state. An example of moderate authoritarian leftists would be a Christian democratic party or the Roman Catholic Church (moderate left wing, moderate authoritarian). Communist murders such as Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin would be at the extreme ends of authoritarianism and at varying degrees of the left wing.
| + | # The Authoritarian Left - This column includes conservative socialists and communists. They believe that both the economy and public behaviour should be controlled, at least partially by the state. An example of moderate authoritarian leftists would be a Christian democratic party or the Roman Catholic Church (moderate left wing, moderate authoritarian). Communist murders such as Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin would be at the extreme ends of authoritarianism and at varying degrees of the left wing. |
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| | Tyrannies have one thing in common, they are both high in authoritarianism. Whether it is left wing dictators such as Castro, Mugabe, or Kim Jong il, or right wing dictators such as Karimov, the Saudi royal family, or Alvaro Uribe; they are all extreme authoritarians. A person of any economic school of thought can be a dictator if they are willing to kill for that ideology, whether communist, capitalist, or otherwise. | | Tyrannies have one thing in common, they are both high in authoritarianism. Whether it is left wing dictators such as Castro, Mugabe, or Kim Jong il, or right wing dictators such as Karimov, the Saudi royal family, or Alvaro Uribe; they are all extreme authoritarians. A person of any economic school of thought can be a dictator if they are willing to kill for that ideology, whether communist, capitalist, or otherwise. |