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Political axes (left and right)
Ideological analysis based on political axes uses stereotypical themes as raw material.
In a previous article, I talked about the error in understanding ideology as a fixed system of categories that determine the perception of reality . Today I address another common mistake in understanding the concept of political ideology: defining it on the basis of probabilities, arbitrariness, and taking a part from the whole .
To do this, it is useful to first talk about the political spectrum, or rather the political spectrum. The bipolar dimension of political axes such as left and right is a good example.
Political axes: right and left
Conceptualizing the political positions of left and right constructs a continuum between two poles with a central point. It is historically associated with the time of the French Revolution , and was used to distinguish between material and political positions: in the National Constituent Assembly , republicans sat to the left of the president, while monarchists sat to the right. Therefore, this polarity is linked to the hypothesis of the existence of progress. It is above all about distinguishing between progressives and conservatives. Unfortunately, we cannot know the essence of two categories that are distinguished by their temporal movement : the conservative response at all times is…
