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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauche_(politique
In politics, the practice is to divide the political parties in general categories that formalize a bipartisan division : the right and the left , which can be added to the center. Across the political arena , political forces are threefold: right, left and revolutionary ( extreme left ) forces out parties.1 .
The notion of left and right in politics is a progressive construction from the late eighteenth century and the early twentieth century.
The left refers to the left side of the chamber of a parliamentary assembly and the people and parties who usually sit . Therefore , the notion of left ( the right one ) does not have a fixed ideological content and a priori : for example, Orleanism is left legitimism , the bourgeois liberal is left of bourgeois monarchy , and what was left at a time is often found right at another time2 and the bourgeois liberal is now generally right, then it is time left Benjamin Constant.
Today, the left parties generally congregate in promoting progressive ideals and equality , criticism of the social order and the interests of greater social justice. It includes social democracy , radicalism , socialism , communism and anarchisme3 . The term is not used for parties, the terms of trade union left or rarely left associative sometimes used .
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauche_(politique
In politics, the practice is to divide the political parties in general categories that formalize a bipartisan division : the right and the left , which can be added to the center. Across the political arena , political forces are threefold: right, left and revolutionary ( extreme left ) forces out parties.1 .
The notion of left and right in politics is a progressive construction from the late eighteenth century and the early twentieth century.
The left refers to the left side of the chamber of a parliamentary assembly and the people and parties who usually sit . Therefore , the notion of left ( the right one ) does not have a fixed ideological content and a priori : for example, Orleanism is left legitimism , the bourgeois liberal is left of bourgeois monarchy , and what was left at a time is often found right at another time2 and the bourgeois liberal is now generally right, then it is time left Benjamin Constant.
Today, the left parties generally congregate in promoting progressive ideals and equality , criticism of the social order and the interests of greater social justice. It includes social democracy , radicalism , socialism , communism and anarchisme3 . The term is not used for parties, the terms of trade union left or rarely left associative sometimes used .
