On 2018-11-21 17:45, juan wrote:
uh oh. So let's make clear what "the right" means. As Jim B. pointed out, the
left/right classification comes from the french revolution. What needs to be added is that the
people who sat on "the right" of the assembly were the
conservatives/monarchists/theocrats or representatives of the 'ancien regime'.
The ancient regime was theoretically absolute, and in an important sense
was absolute, but could not conscript, nor alter taxes from traditional
sense, so in a very important sense far less absolute than the regime
that replaced it, that wound up flaying bakers for charging more than
the maximum and committing hyperinflation, after the fashion of
Venezuela and wiped out entire generation of Frenchmen invading Russia.
The divine right regime of Charles the Second gave us corporate
capitalism, made the scientific method as called for by Robert Boyle in
the "Skeptical Chymist" high status and socially enforced, and
instituted corporate capitalism.
Which gave us science, technology, industrialization, and empire.
So whoever wants to restore civilization against the darkness is going
to look very like those who sat on the right hand side of the assembly
