Analysis of Left and Right (equality and freedom)

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Found this quite interesting when trawling Wiki for things to read...

Psychologist Milton Rokeach claimed that the defining difference between the left and right was that the left stressed the importance of equality more than the right.

To test this model, Milton Rokeach and his colleagues used content analysis on works exemplifying Nazism (written by Adolf Hitler), communism (written by V.I. Lenin), capitalism (by Barry Goldwater) and socialism (written by various socialist authors).

Multiple raters made frequency counts of sentences containing synonyms for a number of values identified by Rokeach, including freedom and equality, and Rokeach analyzed these results by comparing the relative frequency rankings of all the values for each of the four texts:

Socialists (socialism) - Freedom ranked 1st, Equality ranked 2nd
Hitler (nazism) - Freedom ranked 16th, Equality ranked 17th
Goldwater (capitalism) - Freedom ranked 1st, Equality ranked 16th
Lenin (communism) - Freedom ranked 17th, Equality ranked 1st

[Strannik]

My belief is, that where inequality exists there is no freedom.

Rather, the difference between left and right is, that right only begins from freedom. When the freedom has resulted in inequality, they throw it immediately out of window.

The left is commited to freedom from beginning to end. It should be basic state for each individual.

[gorillafuck]

philosophical foundations of ideologies in regards to things like freedom have nothing to do with how they act when they need to preserve themselves.

[Franz Fanonipants]

freedom and equality are not Things but rather ideals that are defined however the speaker wishes to define them

e: actually thinking methodologically about the above test, historians do a similar thing but not to make the same ridiculous final claims. the problematic shit here is that they've assigned a weight to words that are utilized to make broader points.

also, the false difference between socialism and communism.

[Franz Fanonipants]

My belief is, that where inequality exists there is no freedom.

this is non-revolutionary, empty rhetoric.