Right-wing anarchist, Joseph Sobran (converted from William F. Buckley conservatism to radical libertarianism by Murray Rothbard, if I'm recalling properly),
tells us:
I often ask liberals to explain what they mean by right-wing, a term they apply to everything they dislike, even principles that have nothing in common, such as anarchism (opposition to all government) and fascism (government without limits), as well as conservatism (government within carefully defined limits), not to mention monarchism, oligarchy, plutocracy, nativism, militarism, laissez-faire capitalism, theocracy, libertarianism, feudalism, neoconservatism, and a hundred mutually incompatible other things. What common denominator can they possibly share? How can they all be "right-wing"? No liberal has ever been able to tell me.
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Well, I will exclude "anarchism" "laissez faire" (laissez faire capitalism is an oxymoron) and "libertarianism" as right wing. Now,historically the term right wing was set to design the oposition against french revolution ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity. It was meant to defend the idea that the ruling class could maintain their priviledges via the use of coertion against the rest of society. So all the rest of movements have that in common that makes em "right wing": from the protection of the priviledges of aristocracy to the protection of priviledges of the capitalist class (that uses and asociates with the state for the purpose, sadly using the "free market rethoric"). So, what do you think?
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