▲ 153 ▼ Is it just me being unaware or is it generally true that there are no academic people in Right Wing? (lemmy.world) submitted 2 days ago by Naive@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 181 comments fedilink hide all child comments Many academics I see online are leftist whereas many laypeople I see online are right wing.
[–] Rothe@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (1 child) Which specific right wing concerns are worthwhile? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children) Healthy right wing politics often promote the possibilities of small businesses to thrive in ethical ways, not the defense of unholy monopolies or abusive employment conditions. They are also more traditionally concerned with individual freedoms and right to privacy. What we are seeing now in US and global politics is not a balanced representation of right wing any more than pol pot is a fair representation of the left. It's a full blown authoritarian police state kleptocracy, and as us in the third world can testify, these can come from either side. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] OilyArena@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago Small businesses are very often forced to compete with bigger players by exploiting their workers more and make higher margins on the same product/service. That's just how a capitalist ownership structure works out. I guess it's the deathrattle of the petit-bourgeois that's spinning up these romanticized stories about themselves because they don't want to accept their class is being dissolved and most of them are forced into the possessionless existence of being a worker. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) It seems like it's worth mentioning here, that personal rights and small business ("libertarianism", as it's known in America) has been on the right in recent history, but the French revolutionary left held a lot of similar ideas back in the 1700s. It stayed associated with the left wing through the 1800s, before socialist influence on the left pushed it out, as the century ended. Basically, there tends to be two sides of the political spectrum, but what exactly they are, varies over time and geography. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children) Healthy right wing politics often promote the possibilities of small businesses to thrive in ethical ways, not the defense of unholy monopolies or abusive employment conditions. They are also more traditionally concerned with individual freedoms and right to privacy. What we are seeing now in US and global politics is not a balanced representation of right wing any more than pol pot is a fair representation of the left. It's a full blown authoritarian police state kleptocracy, and as us in the third world can testify, these can come from either side. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] OilyArena@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago Small businesses are very often forced to compete with bigger players by exploiting their workers more and make higher margins on the same product/service. That's just how a capitalist ownership structure works out. I guess it's the deathrattle of the petit-bourgeois that's spinning up these romanticized stories about themselves because they don't want to accept their class is being dissolved and most of them are forced into the possessionless existence of being a worker. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) It seems like it's worth mentioning here, that personal rights and small business ("libertarianism", as it's known in America) has been on the right in recent history, but the French revolutionary left held a lot of similar ideas back in the 1700s. It stayed associated with the left wing through the 1800s, before socialist influence on the left pushed it out, as the century ended. Basically, there tends to be two sides of the political spectrum, but what exactly they are, varies over time and geography. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OilyArena@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago Small businesses are very often forced to compete with bigger players by exploiting their workers more and make higher margins on the same product/service. That's just how a capitalist ownership structure works out. I guess it's the deathrattle of the petit-bourgeois that's spinning up these romanticized stories about themselves because they don't want to accept their class is being dissolved and most of them are forced into the possessionless existence of being a worker. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) It seems like it's worth mentioning here, that personal rights and small business ("libertarianism", as it's known in America) has been on the right in recent history, but the French revolutionary left held a lot of similar ideas back in the 1700s. It stayed associated with the left wing through the 1800s, before socialist influence on the left pushed it out, as the century ended. Basically, there tends to be two sides of the political spectrum, but what exactly they are, varies over time and geography. permalink fedilink source parent