It's annoying how contested and confusing political terms are.
Does "capitalism" mean free markets or investor-ownership?
Does "libertarianism" mean a politics of freedom or does it mean a politics of property?
Does "communism" mean a classless, moneyless, stateless society or does it mean totalitarianism?
Does "liberalism" mean a politics of freedom or does it mean a politics of 'equity'?
Wikipedia defines left-wing as a politics of equality and right-wing as a politics of hierarchy. But then why is transgenderism considered left-wing and the pro-life-movement right-wing?
And if being against abortion is right-wing, does that mean so is being against killing animals for meat and leather? Because any sane person would say those are both pro-life.
I mean, even fascism originally referred to a bundle of sticks, because individually sticks are weak, but together they are strong.
Humans just use words wrong, probably intentionally a lot of the time. I don't think it's an accident that words that are supposed to refer to normal individuals having all the power keep end up being used to mean a couple evil assholes have all the power.
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The fasces has always been a symbol of government power.
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https://anagora.org/politics
https://anagora.org/semantics