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Re:Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit by jameslk on Monday September 04, 2017 @11:26PM (#15172302)
Anarchism can be considered either left or right, as its a completely orthogonal ideology to what is typically considered left and right wing ideologies. Libertarianism is just a form of minimal government, but not anarchism.

Left and right are not really well defined ideologies[0]. They're just archaic and lazy ways to generalize political stances.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_s...

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Re:Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit by cies on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @09:25AM (#15174830)
> Anarchism can be considered either left or right

Nope. It is always socialist/anti-capitalist. The name as been wrongfully appropriated by anarcho-capitalist, a contradictory term. They are merely for no-gov't-capitalism; which it against pretty much every anarchist principle (anti-oppression).

> Libertarianism is just a form of minimal government

Yes.

> Left and right are not really well defined ideologies[0].

Indeed. But pro-private-property-ad-inifinitum and against it are well defined (and largely overlap with true-left and true-right). Problem, nowadays many that subscribe to capitalism may call themselves "social dems", and thus get a little "lefty" vibe going, thereby diluting the term.

No problem, new terminology come to rescue.

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