> Instead, the "right wing" idea is that by mandating those things through government intervention, you will not achieve your goal of actually securing them. T

> Instead, the "right wing" idea is that by mandating those things through government intervention, you will not achieve your goal of actually securing them. That is more an American definition of right wing as far as I know. Traditional European right wing (sufficiently right wing) is usually very interventionist, the economical policies generally goes from an interventionist left, to an economically liberal center, to an interventionist right, with both far left and far right advocating nationalisation of (some) private companies.