The left-right dichotomy should have been abandoned in eighteenth century…
I will always be a rightoid. My political views have not changed very much. I believe that free market is the key to wealth. People should be allowed to make money, keep that money, and invest that money. Taxes should be low, or non-existent. They should gather just as much to pay for security and healthcare. Security means police force and defense, which is the key to prosperity. And healthcare increases the human capital of the country. Although, the country needs a large private healthcare sector that would provide exclusive care.
We could also add education but in many places publicly funded education sucks ass. Parents hire private tutors, wealthier individuals send their kids to private schools. In Murica, where students pay exuberant tuition, the universities are research centers, they have museums with ancient artifacts. Here in Czechia, universities suck ass. This is why I want private education. Most public schools are places where parents drop their kids and the latter are then subjected to trans propaganda instead of learning.
Socially, I am not so much concerned with Christian morality but I do not like LGBT. I hate the fact that nobody talks about the dark side of this phenomenon out of fear of being labeled a homophobe. But my friends, monkeypox, HIV, kids on puberty blockers, drag queen story hours with child molesters, defense of pedophilia, this shit needs to stop! I find most forms of Feminism to be demented and evil and I have personally very bad experiences of working with women. I have been ratted out to my superiors by bitches numerous times, and have suffered female superiors for so long, I came to the conclusion that the best place for a woman is in the kitchen feeding the kids. Feminism has done a number on Western society, and it needs to stop! No compromise!
I am not a nationalist, nationalism belongs to the nineteenth century. I am myself a mixture of 4 European nationalities and I view nationalism to be something parochial. But I am also an immigration skeptic. My mother is an immigrant and my eighteenth century ancestor was an immigrant into this country but I see the dark side of immigration. Nevertheless, Ukrainian war refugees welcome! We had it coming. Globalization benefits the common man, it makes goods cheaper. I do not like economic nationalism, I am a globalist for the good of the people.
The origins:
So what are the origins of my bigoted opinions? The idea of left and right comes from the French Revolution, where the right stood for the Ancien Régime, the king and the left stood for liberal reforms that would favor the bourgeoisie. The old aristocracy lived off of their estates, collected rent, and didn’t work, and the bourgeoisie made money from trade and manufacturing, and soon eclipsed the nobility in wealth. Today the classical liberals would be considered far right by many. In France the political scene fractured into Republicans, Bourbon supporters, and Bonapartist supporters. Each had its own liberal and conservative streak.
In mid-nineteenth century another social group clamored for emancipation. The working class. Not only is this the time of the abolition of slavery and serfdom but also the rapid urbanization and industrialization. A smelly degenerate, Karl Marx wrote about the plight of the workers, and called for class struggle. The workers were to take the means of production and build a communist utopia. Already towards the late nineteenth century, a more mild strain of socialist has appeared, especially in Western Europe.
Throughout the nineteenth century, another ideological current has appeared. Nationalism! Nationalism is a completely modern invention, pre-modern people had little in way of national consciousness. Countries were a patchwork of various counties and princedoms, with different identities, linguistic and cultural. For instance, France was a place, where every region had its own language or dialect. Germany was full of little countries with differing German vernaculars, and the same applies to just about any country in Europe. Nationalists either sought to unite these disparate regions into one, or liberate themselves from the dominance of another nation. The nation provided a new sense of common identity in a world, where the authority of religion was seriously challenged.
Nationalism culminated in two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century. Socialists and anarchists attempted to sway the working class from nationalism. The workers should have realized their own true enemy, which is the bourgeoisie. The Fascists were originally those socialists that did not buy into the internationalist “workers of the world unite”, and instead embraced nationalism. The question is, is Nationalism right or left. On one hand it is a completely modern phenomenon that did not exist in pre-modernity and yet it draws on primordial symbols that originate in pre-modernity or are based on essentialism like race. The Italian, Spanish, or Hungarian regimes in the inter-war period coexisted with monarchies. In different national contexts, nationalism latches on to different ideologies. Like Czech nationalism was liberal, and Ukrainian nationalism was rather socialist.
Strangely enough, WWI gave rise to another identitarian movement, the Woke. Also known as the Cultural Marxism, where the working class is replaced by racial minorities, society’s freaks and women. The bourgeoisie loves this, and they love it even more than nationalism now. The horrors of WWII have kind of discredited the latter. The latter gets sometimes drawn out of the closet, like in Ukraine but the latter is an exception. This shifting of focus from class struggle to cultural struggle is a device the bourgeoisie uses to manage the working class. They have successfully shifted the focus of Occupy Wall Street from bankers to negroes and transexuals. In Ukraine, if you opposed the oligarchs or the EU, you would get your head kicked in by Neonazi thugs. See the similarities? Cui bono?
By the way, did you know that the Frankfurt School was always heavily supportive of Western imperialism, like the intervention in Vietnam? This is why you see cretinous libshits all supporting Ukraine now. This is a left-wing capitalism basically. 😆
So where is it now?
I would therefore crystallize several broad ideologies from this…
Conservative (broadly speaking) – This can comprise anything from Classical liberal, Tradcon, Libertarian, Fash. They usually represent like a fringe type that the other parties form a cordon sanitaire against, see the Austrian Freedom Party. If they are a little bit more hardcore, they will have the secret service on their ass, see any Neonazi or radical conservative movement in Czechia or Germany. I have been a member of this right-libertarian party here in Czechia, and the way they were doing things was absolute autism.
You are never going to get anywhere like this boys!
Liberals: This is the dominant ideology in the West, it can be a bit more right wing pro-business, or more socialist, raising your taxes, they all believe in negro and homo worship. You are a bad person if you don’t.
Tankies – Traditional leftists, they are kind of rare.
Any political party is kind of a combination of these three. You vote for a presumably right-wing party here in Czechia and they raise taxes. They talk about how they will challenge the dictate of the EU but will do everything the EU tells them when in power. Their MEPs vote differently than their MPs and Senators. In municipalities they are best buddies with members of completely opposite political parties. Liberal democracy sucks a nasty smelly dick. It is a con game.
And it is not the best system out there. Plenty of autocracies provide their people with ample economic freedoms, and a quality of life unimaginable in liberal democracies. Although it begs a question of what actually is an autocracy? And why is the latter bad? Like honestly, democracy and autocracy have their pitfalls. The pitfall of democracy is short-termism, the politicians elected only think of how to be elected again, or how to enrich themselves. In autocracy, the leader can be a moron. But can you guarantee the people you elect will not be morons?
I am done here, this is getting too long…

You would be actually surprised how nationalistic things got in Roman/Byzantine empire in its last 3 to 4 centuries, the fake Roman empire and popes were actually pushing lot of it by various means, including lots of funding. But it also helped stop islamisation like usually if Islam conquered some area soon they would islamize it, even in Iberia, Muslims got to 75%, but the post 1204 Roman empire area, resisted it quite decently. But on flip side it led to its doom.
Iconoclasm period also has a lot of nationalistic elements. Ofc we’re talking different type of stuff, 19th century one is intertwined with the romanticism etc.
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People see this resistance of ancient people like the Britons or the Jews, and call it nationalism. And I can’t say they are wrong, it sticks etymologically but nationalism itself is a modern world. And nationalism in our historical era is qualitatively different from these ancient proto-nationalism. Ancient people might have had ethnic consciousness but they did not have the level of mass culture that existed even in the eighteenth century. I mean mass education, newspapers, printed books, radio, television. The concept of the state as we know it did not exist.
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