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darkknight109 posted...

Debatable - collectivism, like most left-wing governance structures, prioritizes the needs of the group over the needs of the individual, while right-wing governance favours a much more individualistic model. Regardless, collectivism does breed left-wing social policies, which you yourself noted when you pointed out Japan's policies regarding health care and education.

Right wingers drop in to groups in times of need to regain stability then seperate to free themselves of potential anchors. Left wingers see the potential for everyone working together yielding the most fruit, but separate to maintain their individuality.

Collectivism is a tool, it isn't part of either side.

darkknight109 posted...

Sounds like you're relying on a definition of left-wing and right-wing that dates back to a time when right-wingers were monarchists and left-wingers were republicans.

Again irrelevant, left and right work alongside what suits the needs of the time. As the world changes, their allegiance does too.

darkknight109 posted...

Japan has never been "aggressively capitalist" and the allies attempts to make it so in the post-WW2 world by dismantling the zaibatsu were exactly what created the keiretsu in the first place.

They had a financial monopoly that outside forces came to disassemble so they made an equivalent to maintain the financial dominance they wanted, how is that not aggressive capitalism?
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Scloud posted...
Its like he wants two things at the same time.