Came across this on my Twitter feed. Professor openly admitting to brainwashing students.
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Lol, hilarious display of historical ignorance there. Leftism literally began with anti-monarchy revolutionaries like the proto-commie jacobins.
Fundamental principles of human behavior and government didn't begin a couple hundred years ago you twit. Identifications of the pattern did not create the pattern. Isaac newton defining the laws of physics did not bring gravity into existence.
Doesn't change the fact that leftism is anti-tradition, retard.
Stop using the reddit political compass. That thing is a product of "horseshoe theory" propaganda and ascribes modern cultural values to the left and right. Left vs right is a political measuring scale, not a cultural one
The modern american leftist is typically anti-tradition. But that is a relative cultural value, neither inherently left or right wing. Same with nationalism - you can find examples of it on both ends.
You have been confused by the deliberate well poisoning around political discourse, but left vs right is an OBJECTIVE scale whose axes are defined as something like statism vs anarchism, or collectivism vs individualism. Not "tradition" which is vague and subjective at best and would mean wildly different things in different places.
You're almost seeing past the false dichotomy there. Like you pointed out, there's multiple competing standards for what left and right mean and even a two axis compass oversimplifies things. It's too bad triangular charts never caught on.
In any case, there's an observable consistent behavior in the destructive forces that self-identify under labels like progressive, liberal, globalist, marxist, etc where they use utopian lies to tear down old social structures and replace them in ways that increase their own power and fortunes, so I tend to use tradition vs "progress" when speaking on a one dimensional spectrum.
Also, you seem to be under the standard modern western misconception that monarchism means 18th century "l'état c'est moi" style absolutism, when most historical kingdoms and empires were far more decentralized than a typical modern state, with institutions like the church and the aristocracy providing checks and balances against the head of state and against each other.