From: "Murray Hayes" <mhayes@infomatch.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 03:17:44 -0800 (PST)
To: "varange@crl.com>
Subject: Re: The Difference Between The Right And Left
Message-ID: <199612011117.DAA25434@infomatch.com>
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:47:06 -0800, Troy Varange wrote:

>	The French Revolution perhaps provided the best
>	definition as the origional coiners of the terms.
>
>	The Left is for radical change and the Right is for
>	evolutionary change.

     The Jacobin (sp) sat on the left side while the other guys
(I forget their names) sat on the right.  Of course both used to
be on the left before they klled everyone on the right after
which an expansion of sorts happened to fill the seats.  I 
think the event was called the night of the long knives?


>
>	That would put mainstream politics decidedly on the right
>	wing side of the political spectrum.

I would have thought main stream would have been in the middle.

>	The left wing is a rather motly collection including many
>	anarchists, communists and nazis, yet many of the same
>	types are decidedly right wing.


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