blazintommyd · @blazintommyd
7th Aug 2014 from TwitLonger
The difference between Left and Right
@MDSebach well I don't know what "Left" you are referring to but it certainly isn't the one I come from. I agree with your gist but not your application of the appellations.
If you want to talk about Inalienable rights then we're talking about are water, food, fuel and shelter the essence of totalitarianism would be to deprive people of those things, it's irrelevant whether you do it by a majority, which is relative anyway eg, the majority of the US Supreme Court is 5 people but that majority is certainly a minority in other comparisons.
Generally Left and right (also relative) are distinguished by property e.g., in terms of capitalism vs feudalism the Landed Gentry were the Conservatives, the Merchants and capitalists were the revolutionaries or some would argue the lumpen proletariat.
So for example, the Landed Gentry had limited ownership of the land (In England the Monarch was/is Lord of the Land) and certain privileges (property rights) were granted to them by the Sovereign power eg, Blackstone remarks that property like money are the inventions of mankind.
The basis of Communism is Natural Law, the human entitlement to those inalienable rights, which is Left of what is established, which is an arrangement between the sovereign power and propertied individuals which allows the latter to assume ownership of these things as well as the means by which these things are made available. The last remaining vestige in this regard is water which has generally in recent times been provided for publicly with the remainders such as food fuel and shelter held in private hands that may only be acquired on terms dictated by the owner