Shaggai wrote:Merizoc wrote:A lot of people consider me a reactionary, but by no means identify me as right wing (not that I consider myself to be reactionary, but….)
Eh. Multiple variations of how we interpret the spectrum. You look at it one way, I see it another. As long as it's coming from an informed point of view, I'm cool with it.
You're an anarcho-primitivist, according to your sig. I suppose you could describe that as reactionary, but if so it's so reactionary that left and right don't even really apply. Left and right only really apply when you're talking about positions that have been within the Overton Window in the past few hundred years.
I don't know, I think my views are fairly consistently classed as far left despite being far from the Overton Window. I think identification with communism tends to automatically carry that association, whether reasonably or not. Considering Stalin a leftist, for example, only really makes sense with respect to economics; in social policy and political structure he has far more in common with the far right.