Wish I Had More Horizon On This Screen - A Proposal For A New And More Realistic Graph Of Political Identity

Egalitarian Democracy Based In Economic justice and radical equality ____>

(Less criminal and depraved gangster governments) ____________ > (More

criminal and depraved gangster governments)  ___________________>  Totally

depraved violent, terror states run by amoral gangsters, Mussolini, Reign of

Terror, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim regime in  North Korea, Nazism,

etc.

The old line Old Line balanced on some "center"  with Nazism on one end and "Communism" on the other,  based identity on what the various gangster governments claimed they were going to do with the money they looted, taking their obviously unreliable word for that.  The study of what the crooks do with money is what "political economy" is.  I base this new line on the most important things they do in reality, based in how many tens of millions of people they murder, destroy, enslave, oppress, what they do to destroy the basis of life, etc. 

I'll leave it to you to place the various governments of the United States, Britain, France, Japan, etc. on the middle parts of the line.  To some extent they are all between Egalitarian Democracy and the totally depraved "right end" of the line.  People who promote the various governments or positions that would produce that kind of governance also can be located on that line.  I'd place today's general run of Republicans in the United States in the area of More criminal and depraved gangster governments, the U.S. Supreme Court majority perhaps a bit farther to the right of that.   I'd put the current Brit Tory government a bit to their left but not by much.  Democrats fall in a number of places from the extreme of Egalitarian democracy to "Less criminal" some perhaps in that area, though the DLC isn't what it used to be. 

Marxists.   It pains me to say that Marxism being an anti-democratic political ideology based in faith in a pretty superstitious, deterministic model of history and human beings as physical objects,  I would not be able to honestly say they approach this new left position on the line, though there are some I think would if they gave up their atheist religion.  I don't think it's possible for a thinking materialist to really be considered a leftist in this graph of political identity because you have to believe in metaphysical characteristics of human beings to be on this left, metaphysical characteristics that materialism can't be made compatible with.   As a student of the history of Marxism in the United States and elsewhere, I think that is why, despite some of them having their hearts more in the right place than not, they always, inevitably end up damaging the struggle to achieve egalitarian democracy.  You can't say anything like that for fascism and Nazism because they are modern, biological ideologies that, as well, reject those same metaphysical characteristics of human beings, explicitly despising egalitarianism and democracy. 

I have to add that I am coming to believe the real character that determines where you fall on this line depends on whether or not you really believe that people, living beings, have a status higher than non-living physical objects, in human events, whether or not you believe people are the possessors of inalienable rights based in their status as endowed with those by God.   I think the extent to which someone really believes that, they will be ever more likely to fall on the Egalitarian Democratic end of the line.  As a student of history for decades, I think that really is what it comes down to.  It might be possible for someone who doesn't believe that to be an egalitarian democrat but it would have to be so rare that I can't think of anyone I'd reliably believe it about, off hand.