political pundits who have dwelt upon it (Dennis Thompson, John Aldrich, Woodrow Wilson, Stein Rokkan, Robert Putnam, Harvey Mansfield - all political theorists / academicians who have several works to their names and home grown ones such as Ambedkar and Mahesh Rangarajan), there are only two ideologies in politics - Right and Left (and a big spectrum of overlapping combinations in between these two).
A political party that has an agenda that is serious and meaningful in any way for their constituency has to necessarily adopt a stance somewhere on the Right to Left spectrum. If they choose not to or are silent about it (in the hope that the people who they appeal to will not regard it as important), they will only be compromising their long term survival.
This question of being Right or Left addresses the most cardinal among the needs of any human society - whether public resources should be managed for the benefit of the common good or whether they should be allowed to be appropriated by sections of society under the assumption that those sections will be benign in their ways and that some of the profits generated by their handling of the public resources will find their way to the general public and that there will be all round economic progress over the long term in the bargain.
It is this question - where a party has taken its stance on the right left spectrum - that many parties (most prominently the BJP) keep trying to obfuscate and divert attention from.
Re: According to most
by Against Pseudos on Sep 17, 2015 12:36 PM
Keep diverting attention. And hey by the way did you manage to figure out whether china and USA are right or left?
political pundits who have dwelt upon it (Dennis Thompson, John Aldrich, Woodrow Wilson, Stein Rokkan, Robert Putnam, Harvey Mansfield - all political theorists / academicians who have several works to their names and home grown ones such as Ambedkar and Mahesh Rangarajan), there are only two ideologies in politics - Right and Left (and a big spectrum of overlapping combinations in between these two).
A political party that has an agenda that is serious and meaningful in any way for their constituency has to necessarily adopt a stance somewhere on the Right to Left spectrum. If they choose not to or are silent about it (in the hope that the people who they appeal to will not regard it as important), they will only be compromising their long term survival.
This question of being Right or Left addresses the most cardinal among the needs of any human society - whether public resources should be managed for the benefit of the common good or whether they should be allowed to be appropriated by sections of society under the assumption that those sections will be benign in their ways and that some of the profits generated by their handling of the public resources will find their way to the general public and that there will be all round economic progress over the long term in the bargain.
It is this question - where a party has taken its stance on the right left spectrum - that many parties (most prominently the BJP) keep trying to obfuscate and divert attention from.
are not friendly to each other . Lalu avoiding Rahul in Champaran Meeting, from where Rahul is starting his campaign. Here two main organisers can't see each other. bad omen for this front.
You can see the Gentleman's smile till the election. Once the result declare he will be thrown out from the political history. There will not be a single person in his side to morn the defeat.