Nikki Haley-What was the cause of the Civil War

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(01-16-2024, 10:28 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: With that said, simplifying anything to left vs right is almost always incorrect and that likely holds for WW2 as well.

Pretty much. We use it as shorthand because everyone is familiar with it, but in political science it is almost universally dismissed.

To make it even more interesting, I read a paper one time thanks to a Wikipedia rabbit hole that looked at the political typologies in former Soviet Bloc countries. What was of note was that while we in western democracies have our view of right v. left, where left-wing economic views coincide with liberalism, in the former U.S.S.R. those with left-wing economic positions tend to be more of the nationalistic sort. So think of that and how it may related to the Soviet Union of old. We know from history that while they espoused the economic side of Marxism, their adherence to the liberal ideals of democracy (something Marx was a fan of) was severely lacking. It is because of this that trying to project our understanding of right v. left onto the U.S.S.R. is flawed form the start.