The Far Right

[Louisabell]

This is the most simple and unbiased explanation I can make.

The linear left-right scale is ineffective at describing political idealogy. Personally I think the linear scale is taught in schools and used in media a lot in order to confuse and obfuscate (it's not like it's in the best interest of a government to educate its populance on good political theory afterall).

Political ideologies sit on a 2d plane, such as below.


When people talk about the far right and the far left, they're referring to the authoritarian right (facism, meaning private ownership of the government) and the authoritarian left (communism under strict hierarchical central planning/control). In practice these systems are very alike.

The extreme bottom left is anarcho-communism (communal ownership with no central control/planning - not sure how that's possible but I admit I've done no reading on it) and extreme bottom right is anarcho-capitalist, which also has no central governing body, but with individual property rights.

The anarchists also get lumped in with the far left/right, I think it's because people confuse the political term anarchy with literal anarchy (lawlessness, disorder, riots, unmitigated violence, etc). They're not the same.

Libertarianism is also far right on the x-axis, but considered more "centrist", mainly because it is very low on the authoritarian y-axis. Same with some forms of social democracy for the left, but again are considered more "centrist" because they're low on the authoritarian scale.

So in summation: authoritarian governments bad