Quote:Agreed outside the us it's more authoritarian or anarchy scale

It's not really even a "scale" as we would think of it. It's more of a series of Venn diagrams that can be used to place ideologies in a broader circle based upon similarities and differences with each other. Once you scale it up to the global level, it's tough to say that one ideology is any further "left" or "right" than another, but you can place ideologies within that circle as to how close they lie to the four outlying points (which I don't remember anymore, although I know that Orwellian totalitarianism and pure anarchy were the top and bottom points). Placing ideologies within that circle is a pain, because you have to compare them to each other as well as to the endpoints to figure out where they lie within that circle relative to the other ideologies presented. Doing it for ten ideologies took me the better part of a week. I don't even want to imagine how long it would take to do it for every major nation's political system.

 

So, yeah, suffice to say that placing Iran's politics on an Americanized left/right scale would be impossible without greatly oversimplifying things. Their political system is based on a completely different foundation than ours is.

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