RE: http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=27&theme=home

The metaphor Left/Right is grossly outdated and leads to fatal errors, such as "Fascists and Nationalists are closer to conservatives than Marxists, therefore fascists, Nationalists, and conservatives can coalesce" (they can't). Politics resembles more a Chinese checkers board, or even a Jackson Pollock painting, than a line going from left to right.

There is nothing "Right" about libertarians. Ditto what Europeans call "Christian Democrats". Ditto the "Neoconservatives", who are neither neo or conservative, but are best called Hamiltonians or just Whigs, whose program is as old as the Exclusion Bill of 1678. If "Right" means fascism(s) or Nationalism, then Tory conservatism isn't "Right" either. Nor is there really little "Left" about the Greens. Even Social Democracy, Socialism, and Marxism all have different "deep structures".

Brian Mitchell's Eight Way to Run the Country, though problematic, is a step in the correct direction.

Otherwise, a fine article and quite correct about its subjects. Maybe the author is too kind to Little Miss Ayn. And is Von Mises a Bentham retread?

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