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They use right-left in political science departments, so I'm not sure it's "useless". It just requires context. We don't look at US and EU politics on the same

• keiferski 6y ago
  > EU politics are just further to the left on the universal scale. But I don't think this is actually true or a useful statement. Many aspects of American politics are more left-wing than their European counterparts; anarchism or libertarianism, for example, roughly defined as antipathy toward the state, is often considered left-wing and is far more prevalent in the US. Left-wing politics in contemporary Europe seems to almost always include a strong state role. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_anarchism As I said, I don't think any sort of universal right-left dichotomy is useful. It also doesn't factor in non-traditional political thinkers, like say, Nietzsche, who could not be accurately described as right, left, or anywhere in between.