>>The term originates from the French Revolution, when liberal deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president's chair, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789. The nobility, members of the Second Estate, generally sat to the right. As this original reference became obsolete, the meaning of the term has changed, and is now used to denote a broad variety of political philosophies and principles. In contemporary Western political discourse, the term is most often used to describe forms of socialism, social democracy, or, in the sense in which the term is understood in the United States, liberalism. << Comment In other words left and right wing is a division of bourgeois politics and ideology and in relationship to communism of the Marxist and Leninist variant, both wings exist outside the general boundary of thinking and advocacy of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. That is to say Lenin was not on the left. He represented a category of politics outside the left and right political division. In the absence of a Soviet polarity the left and right wing categories are fairly easy to see and experience as the field of bourgeois ideology and politics.
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