No Stupid Questions

Left and right are misleading terms that originate from the seating arrangement in the French National Assembly. Roughly speaking, left and right can be distinguished by the fact that those on the right approve of social hierarchies and want to maintain them, while those on the left want to abolish them. A supposed middle position would be “only some hierarchies are good.” But that is also just a right-wing position.

That is why there is no “middle ground” in anarchism. Either you want a system in which everyone benefits equally, or one with a clear capitalist hierarchy. Either everyone has one vote, or the weight of the vote depends on wealth. Either we consider the freedom of all to be important, or only that of those who have enough capital. Either no one is dominated, or only those who have to sell their labor.

There is only either/or here. Those who do not consider all people to be of equal value consider some to be more valuable. This is not a spectrum; rather, the difference lies in very fundamental normative decisions.

The Judean People's Front

There's no such thing as the middle. It's not a spectrum.

Sometimes things are actually just distinct beliefs.

You can't be in between Christianity and Hindu for example. They aren't attached to each other, they are distinct.

"genuine" anarcho capitalists (who arent grifting or trying or are otherwise not just interested in new political concepts like anarchism) dont know what they believe in and no one really helps them out because its easier to make fun of them (valid, but making fun of something isnt how you fix things). They are in a transitionary phase between liberalism, fascism, and socialism. They started from one of those places, are becoming dissillusioned to it, and are opening up to ideas of the other two.

Now you know how to talk to an anarcho capitalist and sway them to your side. Find out where they are coming from, and appeal to whichever side you want them to go to (or back if you want them to see the err in their ways). This also works in favor of fascism btw so if you dont help the anarcho capitalists, they will, and they are.

I've read enough political posts on Lemmy to know that the correct term for the people in the middle is "Nazi sympathizers."

Does that tell you where the strongest voices on Lemmy fall?

The other answer is "the left / right spectrum is false." The actual spectrum is "right / wrong," and the writer's beliefs are always on the former side.

Of those two? Christian Democrats, I guess. But there are ideologies far to the right of anarchocapitalists (eg. neomonarchists) and far to the left of libertarian socialists (eg. communists), and anyway political ideologies don't map well to a single- or even dual-axis graph. You need axes for economic model, rights vs. authority, and stability vs. innovation at a minimum.

Ideologies such as social liberalism and democratic socialism are often regarded as in between extreme left and extreme right positions. There are many other positions of course such as centre-right and various "green" and religiously motivated positions. They could also often fit somewhere in between on a conventional right-left spectrum. This of course varies a lot between countries and political systems.

Liberals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_without_adjectives