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"LEFT, RIGHT OR CENTER? Anything else?


By Juan Fernando Perdomo

times marked changes in the trends of political parties and political models themselves. Now we all want to look for ideology of the Centre.

This is not possible. Mean that the ideologies that were lost dieronrazón to be in this game, which makes it different for ciudadanosvoten for them.

really that ideology and trend should to be reflected in the basic principles involved in their manifesto.

In the talks I give on Politics, conducted an exercise: I chose a pair depárrafos platforms of each party on social issues. Laspuse on an overhead without pointing to what party they belong to and ask losasistentes to vote on which party or ideology are frases.Generalmente, the group "condemns" the exercise.

is not the fault of the citizen. The tendency of the party leadership Devender ideological image which believe not, but can serve paraatraer more votes and supporters. But also because ideologies are, at least, two dimensional.

For the reverse is a lie: The parties have no particular visionesdistintas. May be different in economic policies, but sympathize with the social. LIX

The Legislature, a company conducted a survey to all parties legisladoresde shows that although there claramenteidentificados games with a left or right, legislators seautodenominan center.

In that survey, for each position within ideológicatradicional dimensional geometry, legislators and self-identified, enporcentaje:

a) the PAN: Left 2%, 6% in Left Center; enCentro 35%, 44% in Central right and 6% in Derecha.b) The PRI: Left 3%, 44% in Left Center; enCentro 31%, 14% in Central and 1% Right Derecha.c) The PRD: 55% Left and 40% in Central Izquierda.d) Member of the Green Ecologist: 11 Left Center% and 89% in Centro.e) The Labour Party: 75% and 25% left center, and f) The convergence, with the total, ie 100% in center.

The results do not give 100% in all cases because there legisladoresque not answered. Maybe they did not know what they talked! This brings us at least to these conclusions:

1. Political parties - worldwide - looking to capture the supporters and show mayornúmero platforms "Attractive" to losvotantes;

2. Lawmakers call themselves a party of a trend, but do not go with the ideology of his party

3. Ideologies are not linear. They have depth two-dimensional stages or profiles that vary with the issue being addressed.

Of course, this is not widespread, but occurs in Mexico mayorfrecuencia barely 10 years ago. If this were not true, no políticose sit at the same table as another of a different ideology, under linear laperspectiva would have no common ground.

But When was the concept of left and right?

On the Web "the political compass" says: "The old clasificaciónunidimensional, Right" and "left" as defined in the National Assembly disposicionesde of 1789, by a vote under esexcesivamente simplistic to the current political landscape. " And question: "Who are the conservatives in Russia today? Is estalinismoinvolucionista or the reformers who have adopted the view deconservadores as Margaret Thatcher?"

and reinforces: "On the standard left-right scale," cómodistinguiría between leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? Essuficiente not to say that Stalin was simply more left queGandhi. There are fundamental political differences between the two, which may explain lavetusta classification itself "

How many friends of yours, the" right "look up to Gandhi, who is left, but do not accept the ideas of Stalin? If you tell me lasizquierdas differ from those characters, you will understand ageometría who think politics is not linear.

What he proposes "the political compass" is that there are 4 areas: Authoritarianism (at its end, Fascism), Liberalism (in its extreme , Anarchy), Left (at the end, communism) and right (at its end, Neoliberalism). The mixtures are: Authoritarianism, with left or right, and Liberalism with Left or Right. Of course, being axis existenposiciones from a minimum, to the extreme, to the moderate.

To strengthen and know yourself, the Web page author invitaa you do a test that will give you your position within the 4 axes. To ellovisita page:


http://www.politicalcompass.org/es/questionnaire

By giving you your results, shows examples of well known figures of the mixtures decade. For example:

a) Stalin is an example of left-communist-fascist yautoritarismo;
b) Gandhi, a moderate left-Liberal-moderate
c) Thatcher, a right-neoliberal with authoritarianism-moderate
d) Milton Friedman a "neo-liberal right-to-moderate liberalism;
e) Hitler, and moderate right-fascist authoritarianism, and
f) Benedict XVI, according to the survey, is in equilibrium with unaIzquierda- moderate-moderate authoritarianism.

mean: There are more dimensions than the simplistic right, left or center, then at the bottom or the surface, we can all have some Liberal oAutoritario mixed with left or right, which opens the panoramapolítico.

* Juan Fernando Perdomo is a graduate of Tec de Monterrey. Public servant, businessman and politician ( jperdomo@infosel.net.mx ) www.perdomo-blog.blogspot.com