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Originally Posted by ubertuber
This is an interesting point - whether our ideas of "left" and "right" are on an absolute scale of all possible political systems or just within a balance relative to the average voter in this country. Left and right here can be completely different from left and right in some other country.
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Exactly.
As my history teacher put it, back in the French Revolution, when left/right came about as ways of describing political ideas, both of what we would call "left" and "right" would have been on the left.
In another country (Soviet Union? China?) they would be to the right.