Concept
Right-wing politics
Overview
Right-wing politics, or rightism, is the range of political ideologies that view certain social stratifications and orders as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position in favour of conservatism, natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, or tradition. Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences or competition in market economies.
Right-wing politics are considered the counterpart to left-wing politics, and the left–right political spectrum is the most common political spectrum. The right includes social conservatives, as well as laissez-faire economic policies. "Right" and "right-wing" have been variously used as compliments and pejoratives describing neoliberal and conservative economic and social ideas.
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It is not for nothing that the word "democracy" has a double meaning in the political vocabulary. On the one hand, it means a state system founded on universal suffrage and the other attributes of formal "popular government." On the other hand, by the word "democracy" is understood the mass of the people itself, in so far as it leads a political existence. In the second sense, as in the first, the meaning of…
Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy
States what Right-wing politics is.
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. When private men form themselves into associations for the purpose of destroying the pre-existing laws and institutions of their country; when they secure to themselves an army, by dividing amongst the people of no…
Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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At another time Leibniz defines justice as social virtue, and says that there are as many kinds of "right" as there are kinds of natural communities in which happiness is an end of action. A natural community is defined as one which rests upon desire and the power of satisfying it, and includes three varieties,--domestic, civil, and ecclesiastic. "Right" is defined as that which sustains and develops any natural…
John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
States what Right-wing politics is.
Philosophers who discussed Right-wing politics
- Tibor Machan
- Murray Rothbard
- Intellectual
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Julius Evola
- Ayn Rand
- Antonio Gramsci
- Constantin Rădulescu-Motru
- Giovanni Gentile
- FM-2030
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- Euroscepticism
- Manchester University Press
- Egalitarianism
- Fascism
- French Revolution
- Freemasonry
- Friedrich Hayek
- Russell Kirk
- Free market
- Traditionalist conservatism
- Halakha
- Transaction Publishers
- Deregulation
- Norberto Bobbio
- Italy
- Private property
- Islamism
- Individualism
- Laissez-faire
- Kuomintang
- Authority
- Modernity
- Latin America
Opposing perspectives
- Individualism
- Kuomintang
- Left-wing politics
- Far-right politics
- Conservatism in the United States
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Racism
- Socialism
- Cold War
- Bible
- Catholic Church
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Ideology
- Evolution
- Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.