Correct - and it is quite un-meaningful nowadays to debate about who sits on
the right side or on the left side.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http:\\www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anders Hultman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:34 PM
Subject: RE: My own DOF confusion
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
>
> > This may seem uneducated of me - but I here you all saying "i'm right of
> > centre", "he's left", "left winged", "right winged" etc, can someone
please
> > explain to me just what these terms mean?
>
> This dates back to the French parliament of 1789 where the radicals that
> wanted to change society towards more equality and freedom sat to the left
> as seen from the rostrum, and the conservatives that wanted to maintain
> the old system sat to the right. Since then, liberal politics has been
> labeled "left" and conservative politics has been labeled "right".
>
> In the mid 19th century, an even more radical ideology was formed,
> socialism, to the "left" of the then current left. This blurred the
> left--right concept somewhat, since the liberals then became "middle" or
> even "right". The left--right concept became even more blurred in the
> 1930's when fascism and nazism was placed off the scale to the right
> ("extreme right") even though many people think that they have more in
> common with the communists on the "extreme left" (left of the socialists)
> than with the conservatives traditionally labeled "right".
>
> Nowadays, it can be hard to determine what should be called "left" and
> "right" and there also are big differences within each side, so one should
> generally ask for clarification when these terms are used. Especially in
> an international context such as this.
>
> anders
> -------------------------
> http://anders.hultman.nu/
> med dagens bild och allt!
>
