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The nature of Capitalism and free enterprise where the motive and incentive is profit, is hierarchal, elitist at the top, and thus by its constitution is Right Wing. The individual owners and managers of economic enterprise may prefer less government, as less taxes and regulations concerning working conditions for employees, wages and benefits, safety regulations and controls on unsafe materials, or anything that may interfere with the creation of profit. The owners and stock holders of capitalist enterprises accumulate wealth, power and elitist status as opposed
to the worker employees. However capitalists need some government and though they may espouse a hatred for socialism, don't mind using government subsidies for what benefits them, such as infrastructure, roads and bridges, police, fire, military protection and promotion in foreign countries, government contracts, trade laws, special advantage legislation, or outright theft from the government. Capitalists may be conflicted and basically want as much government as necessary to promote their own interests and as little government as possible to promote anyone else.
| MORE GOVERNMENT |
COMMUNISM LEFT |
FASCISM RIGHT |
SOCIALISM LEFT |
CAPITALISM RIGHT |
LESS GOVERNMENT |
Left Wing represents people who believe in social equity. The Left Wing
believes that the creation and maintenance of this equity is the proper
province of government. One of the fundamental functions of government
is to create and maintain standards, as anything from currency, weights
and measures, speed limits, labor laws, safety codes or business and trade practices. Because the elite can purchase private armies and influence all aspects of the social and political conditions by means of favoritism, bribery
or charity, it is only through the agencies of government, as the pooling of
the resources of the majority, that the regulation of socially equitable standards can be enforced. Government is created in which the various agencies, such as the military and police in this instance, represent the constituency as a whole, as opposed to elitist individuals and classes and the accordant social hierarchy in which the benefits of society are distributed relative to status.
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