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Rationale

This chart, I call it the Helpful Diagram, isn't as prettied up as mos, but unlike most it does deliver genuine political insight! For example it deconsructs the Left-Right line which has not been done before. "Left" in terms of the line is anti-clockwise around the circle, "Right" is clockwise. It has never before been explained in a principled way why for example fascism are free-market capitalism are both Right wing philospohies despite their obvious core differences, and why fascism is the more Right wing despite its obvious affinities with the "Left' pihilosophy of Stalinism

A few quick words of explanation, "freedom" is taken in its liberal sense of absence of constraint. (So for example pickets do violate the "freedom" of scabs). Communism is here given its ordinary English sense of Soviet Communism, Stalinism. An important feature of the Helpful Diagram is the Radius of Possibility. The possibilities of a given society are determined by the social intellectual and material resources available to it. For example conservatism on the chart is at the same angle as late feudalism would be, but feudalism is on a shorter Radius of Possibility.

The Helpful Diagram was not just projected out of my mind but arose from work with informants for an honours thesis in linguistics years ago. That is why what academics might differentiate as purely economic and purely political terms are mixed. People do mix them, they don't take them as independent variables. There is a lot more I could say, but I am hoping there will be discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeremytrewindixon (talk • contribs) 01:02, 02 October 2016 (UTC)