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Originally Posted by Symbiote
A 1-Dimensional Left-Right spectrum makes sense consistently in only one way I can think of;
Left Wing refers to "overthrowing the existing social order"
Right Wing to "maintaining the existing social order"
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Then the left-wing encompasses such a wide range of ideologies that it cannot be considered a single point.
Communists want to overthrow the existing social order. So do anarcho-capitalists. But the two are almost opposites. One advocates a totalitairan state, the other advocates no state. One advocates the abolition of property, the other advocates the entrhonement of property.
There is also classical anarchism, mutualism, individualist-anarchism, democratic socialism, and libertarianism which may be described as "left wing" by that standard, but are so different that lumping them all as the left endpoint of a spectrum is tantamount to madness.