From the comments: Bruce F Moon: Id say the Left-Right paradigm originates from...where it started- the French Assembly, and the sitting of the Jacobins on the Left, and the moderate Girondists on the right. The Jacobins were led by the first real Leftist, Robespierre, who was the disciple of the first real Leftist philosopher- Rousseau. The main idea of Leftist is Romanticism- a fantasy view of the goodness of man, rejecting the Biblical worldview that man is inherently sinful, ignoring 6,000 years of human history and a good look in the mirror. Some secularist conservatives, like David Mamet, call the biblical view, the pessimistic view. When Rousseau wasnt busy serial-philandering, dumping his newborn children in impoverished orphanages to die rather than caring for them, mooching off gullible elites, and stiffing all his creditors, he pontificated on how innocent, pure, and noble man was- blaming all of mans wanton dementia on society, rather than a sinful nature. Thus, he argued, man did not need to repent of any sins, rather society needed to change, and of course the only agency powerful enough to change society was....*drum roll please*...The State,( ruled by a cadre of elite enlightened programmers, of course)! *crash, bam, thud.* Every Leftist from Robespierre to Marx, to Mussolini to Sanger, to Heidegger, Marcuse, Sartre, Alinsky and the effete, sneering pontificators infecting our universities- are all Rousseuans. The correct term for Leftist is coercive utopians or Romanticist Humanists. All the blood shed in the name of justice Brotherhood the people the workers , ad nauseum, came from Rousseaus ideas, which is the heart of popular thought still today. Something Santayana said comes to mind.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:29:14 +0000
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