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My thoughts are that the term is inaccurately used to describe moderate and liberal Democrats, rather than real left wing types like Communists. What can I say, people are dumb.
Anonymous
The left wing counter-balances the right wing, and the ideal government is a combination of both. Notably, the top ranked most livable countries in the world are socially democratic countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index
Anonymous
What left wing? Bernie Sanders? Dennis Kucinich? Ralph Nader? Me? Very few other names come to mind. Or are you one of those people who are so far off the deep right end that Atilla the Hun and Genghis Khan look like bleeding heart liberals?
Emma
Without the left and right wing positions, the center and defensemen would be very busy covering the ice.
Anonymous
In the most basic sense the left everywhere reduces the importance of human life to the attainment of material. Just so happens they take the counter approach to capitalism.
I can say this much for capitalism...at least it gives a human being the room to exercise the individual will.
Marxism, communism, and all the variants do not. The condensed arguement seems to be that the individual may be free from his material concerns in some measure through the yoke being applied equally to all.
In the end it is up to the individual to decided which path suits them best. Which kind of gets us around to anarchy...which isn't necessarily bad.