That depends entirely on your scale/perspective. In the US, what most of the developed world consider reasonable centrist policies that “everyone” agrees on is considered radical left by many in the US, thanks to decades of indoctrination.
Also, there are more axises (axii?) than left-right. Sticking every political position on a left-right axis is a very US point of view.
Democratic vs authoritarian
Open society vs closed society
Free market vs central planning
Interventionism vs isolationism
Individual liberty vs collective responsibility
…Just to name a few.
There’s also decentralised planning. Seldom are even those axes on one line - they can overlap and have shades and nuances.
And we also should ask ourselves: what makes a free market? Is it a market in where cooperations are allowed to grow “too big to fail”, and have the power to seize entire societies? Or is it a regulated market in where this cannot occur?
Or a market in where the focus lies on social ownership? Is it therefore not the freest, when one can decide for and by themselves at work?
As for the first one, yeah, I forgot about that one.
When it comes to the second one, I consider 100% free market to be an ancap’s wet dream with 100% corporate freedom with no regulations - Think of it like a market where McFentanyl would be allowed to make and sell their product in every town. And in the other end of the spectrum we have where ancomittee on top of the government determines uotas for how many M8 nuts a factory on the other side of the country must produce per month, as well as setting the price.
That depends entirely on your scale/perspective. In the US, what most of the developed world consider reasonable centrist policies that “everyone” agrees on is considered radical left by many in the US, thanks to decades of indoctrination.
Also, there are more axises (axii?) than left-right. Sticking every political position on a left-right axis is a very US point of view.
Democratic vs authoritarian
Open society vs closed society
Free market vs central planning
Interventionism vs isolationism
Individual liberty vs collective responsibility
…Just to name a few.
There’s also decentralised planning. Seldom are even those axes on one line - they can overlap and have shades and nuances.
And we also should ask ourselves: what makes a free market? Is it a market in where cooperations are allowed to grow “too big to fail”, and have the power to seize entire societies? Or is it a regulated market in where this cannot occur?
Or a market in where the focus lies on social ownership? Is it therefore not the freest, when one can decide for and by themselves at work?
As for the first one, yeah, I forgot about that one.
When it comes to the second one, I consider 100% free market to be an ancap’s wet dream with 100% corporate freedom with no regulations - Think of it like a market where McFentanyl would be allowed to make and sell their product in every town. And in the other end of the spectrum we have where ancomittee on top of the government determines uotas for how many M8 nuts a factory on the other side of the country must produce per month, as well as setting the price.
The plural of “axis” is “axes”, pronounced “AX-ease”.
TIL, TYVM