[raddan]

> Specific instances have included classical liberals supporting free markets and the rule of law, communists aiming for a violent revolution, and progressives focused on identity politics.

I’m not sure I understand how equality factors in. It is certainly a cornerstone of classic liberalism that all people should be equal under the law. But that does not mean that all people are equal, really, and you’d have to be blind to some really obvious circumstances to think that. I’ve always seen “the left” as being more defined by the idea that society should be governed less by tradition and more by a conscientious choice about what rules produce the best outcomes wrt happiness and prosperity. “Freedom” (until the word was co-opted by neocons) was a major feature of this kind of leftist system. This makes the opposition to the right clearer, because they want the converse.

Many progressives talk a lot about equity, but I think it’s fair to say that there are a lot of differing opinions on that particular topic.

[corimaith]

The problem here is that Communists and Progressives actually do agree with alot of the fundamental assumptions about the nature of politics that the Right-Wing does that the Liberal center does not, namely the Schmittian "Concept of the Political". That's why the idea of horseshoe theory is often invoked when if their underlying structures are similar, then their actions often appear similar to the right, if not that they are structurally the same as the right.