what is meant by the term "far left" in politics?
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it means you are extremeley liberal (democrat).\n\nSome organizations belonging to the Far Left\nAnarchist Black Cross Federation \nAnti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (South Korea) \nCo-ed Revolutionary Anarchist Liberation Union (Poland) \nCommunist Party (Sweden)(formerly Communist Party Marxist-Leninists (the revolutionaries)) \nIndustrial Workers of the World \nInternational Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle) \nInternational Socialist Organization \nInternational Workers Association \nMaoist Internationalist Movement \nMelbourne Anarchist Communist Group \nNational Democratic Front (Philippines) \nOrganization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece \nPeoples' Global Action \nRed and Anarchist Action Network \nRevolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) \nRevolutionary Internationalist Movement \nUnity List(Denmark) \nWorkers' Communist Party (Norway) \nWorkers Solidarity Movement(Ireland)
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well, there are actually the same, if you look at the horse shoe of political divide.\nI would say far right is better though  as they had snazzier black suits compared to the far lefts boring grey ones!
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if you want something real far left try the ACLU
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"Left" is generally for progressive social change usually through state support for reduction of poverty and inequality \n\n"Right" is generally for the status quo and maintenance of existing rights and privileges\n\nThe term originates from the French Revolution, when liberal deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president's chair, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789. The nobility, members of the Second Estate, generally sat to the right. It is still the tradition in the French Assemblée Nationale for the representatives to be seated left-to-right (relative to the Assemblée president) according to their political alignment.
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3: dictatorship; laissez-fair; democratic
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Assume you mean word (not phrase) 'leftist'.\n\nLeftist = someone on the left side of the political spectrum; generally socialist-leaning.\n\nLeftist tend to embrace: environmentalism, higher spending (although the right has blown that out of the water recently), welfare...
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After thinking many years about my ideas about liberal and conservative politics. I have come to define liberal politics as those that liberate the many from a power structure that concentrates the wealth of the global culture into the hands of a mercenary, plutocratic, predatory few. I have come to define conservative politics as those that conserve a power structure that concentrates the wealth of the many of our global culture into the hands of a mercenary, plutocratic, predatory few.\n\nWhy should I expect to win a "war on terror" by creating terror in war? Why should I expect to win a war on terror by giving all my gold to a mercenary plutocratic predatory few when it is a mercenary plutocratic predatory few that profit from the demand for protection created by terrorist activity? Terrorist activity creates demand in the market place for the protection services offered by a mercenary plutocratic predatory few. I think, believe and expect a more rational approach to winning the war on terror would be to redistribute of the wealth of the global culture by taking wealth from a mercenary plutocratic predatory few and giving wealth to the many. This would have the dual effect of diminishing the profits derived by a mercenary plutocratic predatory few from operating a global shakedown of epic proportions that some call a war on terror; and enabling the many to protect themselves from terrorist attack as individuals by using wealth acquired through redistribution .
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Thing of political views as a strait line. To the most left is Communism. To the most right is Nazi-ism. A left wing is a democrat and leans more towards Communist views (all people are equal, the government takes care of everyone). The right wing is Republicans and they lean more towards Nazi-ism (strong, powerful government, the people care for themselves). \n\nIf you numbered the line 1-100, 1 being Communism and 100 being Nazi-ism, a Democrat would most likely be around a 45-49. A Republican would be around 51-55. \n\nSome Democrats would be lower numbers. Like Hillary Clinton or John Kerry would be around 35-40. Some republicans, like Rush Limbaugh, would be arounf a 60-65. \n\nI hope this helps.
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In politics, where you stand depends on where you sit. - Unknown.\n\nProbably because depending on your view is how people were seated in the House of Commons.\n\nIn modern Western countries, the political spectrum usually is described along left-right lines. This traditional political spectrum is defined along an axis with socialism and communism, ("the Left") on one end, and conservatism and Fascism ("the Right") on the other. Free market liberalism is generally considered to be center-right; new liberalism or social liberalism is generally assigned to the center, center-left or sometimes (when viewed by conservatives) the left. Christian Democracy may be anywhere from center-right to center-left, depending on the country and era. When the left/right spectrum emerged in the early French revolutionary era the now familiar extremes of communism on the left and fascism on the right were simply not present and leftwardness and rightwardness were based on one's attitude towards the traditional monarchic style of government. The original laissez faire capitalist "left" would now generally be considered part of the right.\nNational and cultural differences in the use of the terms left and right are common. In China, left and right have referred to different positions at different times, although the issues were often very different from those in Western nations.
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I remember hearing that it's a typical strategy for parties to adopt words in their names that don't necessarily reflect their ideology in order to get votes from those people in addition to their core base. For example, until recently Canada's largest right-wing party was called the 'Progressive Conservatives' - also seen by many as an oxymoron.
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Opposition is a Western political concept. It is sometimes qualified as "loyal opposition", meaning "I don't not share you views, stands or policies but that does not mean I will blow you up if I can". The definition of "Subversion" depends on the regime. For Democratic regimes, it means "I am not gonna play by the rules but will do my worst to create havoc and instability in society. For Totalitarian regimes, "subversion means both opposition and subversion as defined above
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Normally, political beliefs are fixed somewhere along a 'spectrum'.\n\nUsually, from an economic perspective, the left is for equality in income: at its extreme, that means the goovernment giving everybody the same salary regardless of their job, at a more moderate level, it means higher taxes for the rich than for the poor. The right would be for less taxation and people earning money on a supply-and-demand principle.\n\nSocially, the left is generally for large government projects aiming to provide equal standards (in education, health, insurance, retirement pensions, etc.) to all people. These are usually centrally operated and require high taxes to maintain. The right believes in trusting private corporations to do this at whatever price they choose.\n\nAgain, socially, the left tends to support 'progressive' ideas like racial equality, immigration, gay marriage, drug decriminalisation, abortion, etc. The right percieves tradition as an important basis for lawmaking, and often is opposed to many of these things.\n\nNot everything can be categorised along a left/right spectrum. Globalisation vs. nationalism, for example: the left used to be more globally-minded than the right; now I'm not sure if that's true. Religiously-motivated politics are often thought of as 'the right', but there are groups like 'Christian socialists' too.
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liberals protect freedom (liberty)\n\nconservatives protect property (conservation)\n\ngenerally speaking... the terms were coined in the French revolution of 1789.  \n\ngenerally higher educated people vote Left, and the more rich people vote Right.\n\nBut they're both part of the same problem.
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In terms of political orientation, there IS no hard and fast definition of what a "liberal" is. The definition of who is "liberal" (or conservative for that matter) and for what reasons has varied throughout history, and varries from country to country, and also from person to person. It's all very subjective.
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By saying  rafical, did you mean laughable? If so, I'll go with that one. If you mean radical, that's taken by the left. I think ultra-conservative is about as far right as you can go. If you mean just left (I know people hate that word) of ultra-conservative, you'd be conservative.
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how can you oversimplify everyone into "liberal" and "conservative" labels? At this point, those words have no meaning, because they could mean absolutely anything.\n\nFor example, liberal can mean socialist, or it could mean capitalist, and conservative could mean noninterventionist, or it could mean interventionist. Since these are directly opposed, the words have no objective meaning.\n\nThrow away the labels and use some logic.
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Historically, Fascists are ultra-right-wing--see National Socialists in Germany under Hitler and Fascist under Musolinni in Italy in WWII and prior.  I can't speak for current ones in Russia--I'm not familiar with their politics.