[91357] in Cypherpunks
Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burnes)
Thu Dec 4 04:58:15 1997
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 18:10:32 -0700 (MST)
From: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
To: James Love <love@cptech.org>
cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3485F5DD.459EB83C@cptech.org>
Reply-To: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, James Love wrote:
> Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >
> > Jamie, if you're seriously confused about the differences between
> > left-wing and right-wing groups I can help educate you, perhaps with a few
> > rules of thumb. But I suspect that you really don't want a serious answer.
>
> I didn't think the big government fetish answer was very good. I
> don't want to put words in your mouth. But if you think you can really
> explain what constitutes a leftist, in your view, I'm ready to read it.
>
> Jamie
Man! Talk about burning bandwidth on politics 101. The problem
is that you're both stuck using Orwellian newspeak for political
classification. If people only have a single dimension to
classify political beliefs then there can't be very many
beliefs.
Multidimensional political beliefs systems don't hash into the
one dimensional left/right axis very well. The collision
rate is too high.
For a somewhat better map at least check out the Nolan chart.
http://www.self-gov.org/lp-quiz.shtml
enjoy
jim
