Left vs. Right. The Classic Political Divide in the Modern World

choice in the contemporary world?”
1. Overview of the left–right political spectrum
2. History of the left–right political spectrum
3. Left–right political spectrum In the modern world

include assumptions, beliefs, and values about human nature and society.
In political science, ideologies have been viewed as configurations of beliefs and values about the government of societies that are related to each other and bound together by some forms of constraint, coherence, and functional interdependence.
Political ideologies are not static knowledge systems.

been distinguished by using as a criterion of their position with regard to a hypothetical right-left ideological continuum in correspondence with the seats held by political parties and their representatives in parliamentary assemblies.
At the beginning, right and left have reflected the positions held by those defending stability versus those pursuing change, namely the interest of those who benefited from their wealth and status versus the interests of common people who instead desired to affirm their rights against the undeserved privileges of the former and to free themselves from need and serfdom.