"There's abundant evidence for the need of it. The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left' , established for the seating
arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape. For example, who are the
'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of conservatives
like Margaret Thatcher ?
On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left
than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally
describe social reactionaries as 'right-wingers', yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook."
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My God....I'm a Libertarian!