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Right-wing, besides being capitalist, also means being conservative. Which implies respect for tradition, etiquette and savoir-vivre. Other than diet, another i

by c594815 10y ago

Right-wing, besides being capitalist, also means being conservative. Which implies respect for tradition, etiquette and savoir-vivre. Other than diet, another interesting aspect is architecture. Leftists like brutalism and modernism, while right-wingers like traditional architecture, have a look here: https://www.facebook.com/ArchMMXII https://www.facebook.com/ArchMMXII.

theoh 10y ago
That's an oversimplification of the story in relation to architecture. A lot of modernist architects have espoused socialist views, but someone like Mies van der Rohe also built some work for the Nazi regime. The modernist architect Philip Johnson was a notorious Nazi sympathizer. There's an article here that starts to unpick the architecture/politics relationship in relation to one architect's work: http://archinect.com/features/article/4618/peter-eisenman-liberal-views-have-never-built-anything-of-any-value http://archinect.com/features/article/4618/peter-eisenman-li... Since architecture requires significant wealth and organization, it's rarely, if ever, something that comes out of anarchism. So statism or philanthropy is often behind it.
dagw 10y ago
another interesting aspect is architecture. Leftists like brutalism and modernism, while right-wingers like traditional architecture, On the other hand, preserving old traditional buildings tends to be a leftist cause, while wanting to bulldoze them and replace them with new modern buildings tends to be a right-wing cause.
- digi_owl 10y ago
  And this is why i find the concept of a dual axis political sorting better. One axis is economic, the other social, with the traditional left-right divide being mapped to the social axis. Here is the tricky bit, that once you start mapping liberal and conservative on the economic axis things tend to reverse compared to the social one. So quite often social conservatives end up in the economic "liberal" (or laissez-faire) end.

by c594815 10y ago

theoh 10y ago

That's an oversimplification of the story in relation to architecture. A lot of modernist architects have espoused socialist views, but someone like Mies van der Rohe also built some work for the Nazi regime. The modernist architect Philip Johnson was a notorious Nazi sympathizer. There's an article here that starts to unpick the architecture/politics relationship in relation to one architect's work: http://archinect.com/features/article/4618/peter-eisenman-liberal-views-have-never-built-anything-of-any-value http://archinect.com/features/article/4618/peter-eisenman-li... Since architecture requires significant wealth and organization, it's rarely, if ever, something that comes out of anarchism. So statism or philanthropy is often behind it.

dagw 10y ago

another interesting aspect is architecture. Leftists like brutalism and modernism, while right-wingers like traditional architecture, On the other hand, preserving old traditional buildings tends to be a leftist cause, while wanting to bulldoze them and replace them with new modern buildings tends to be a right-wing cause.

digi_owl 10y ago
And this is why i find the concept of a dual axis political sorting better. One axis is economic, the other social, with the traditional left-right divide being mapped to the social axis. Here is the tricky bit, that once you start mapping liberal and conservative on the economic axis things tend to reverse compared to the social one. So quite often social conservatives end up in the economic "liberal" (or laissez-faire) end.