In politics, it is a difficult task to distinguish right wing and left wing politicians. However, I think I have found the difference.
The real difference between left and right is that leftist politicians want to change society and that rightist politicians want to keep it as it is or to follow and elaborate the ruling ideology. So, left has nothing to do with socialist or communist and right has nothing to do with liberal or racist.
For example, according to this definition:
- Adolf Hitler was a left wing politician in 1933 because he wanted to change Germany; he became rightist at the end of the war because he wanted to continue the same politics of destructive expansion and annihilation;
- Leonid Brezjnev was a right wing politician because he wanted to preserve the Soviet Union as it was and strengthen communism;
- the linguistic divided political parties in Belgium all want to maintain and to go further in linguistic federalism; as a consequence, they are rightist;
- the B.U.B. is a left wing party because it want to abrogate linguistic federalism even if this implies the restoration of the former Belgium with nine provinces and without regions and communities.
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