Quote Originally Posted by colker View Post
The left begins in the french congress or was it the english? where the geographically speaking left side would fight the right side.
The left as we know, began w/ the communist manifesto and later developed in The Capital, 18th of Brumary and German Ideology.. the Left as an action movement illuminated by political science.
Americans call their left, Liberal, while we in south america call the right conservative capitalism, Liberal .
What i call conservative is Roger Scruton, Hayek and other contemporary writers. What you guys are calling conservative is populist authoritarian religious fundamentalism.
Well, you beat me to it--in a way. The problem, then, is that I don't agree with your definitions, or your view as to how the doctrines and labels developed.

But it's a start I guess.