Hares another thought I had.
We all know the political compass. The simple way to map all of politics in just two axis on a 2d plain. Reducing the fascinating complexity of society to just four sectors. With such unhelpful labels as “left” and “right”. Here’s my version. The “left-right” axis is replaced with class authority and “lib-auth” with state authority. Now If any lib-rights want to argue with me about the label I’m happy to do so.
The other thing I want to note is that, in my opinion, the lib-right and auth-left sectors are impossible. They represent ideas that do not match reality. because authority creates authority. By mapping class and state authority separately you can see that if you somehow manage to eliminate one but champion the other, the remaining will just form the other. Either by state bureaucrats becoming the privileged class, or the companies creating private militias and becoming states in all but name. That is what the black arrows represent: the tendency to move to a stable balance between the two authorities.
Auth-left is impossible? What is North Korea?
Same as any single-party state. Absolute state-power giving all power to the party turning the party into the ruling class.
So you don’t count ideology at all, only structural outcomes?
“They represent ideas that do not match reality” Unfortunately, that is not how democracy works. Idiots get to vote too, and so this does matter.
See the abortion debate for example. There’s people at either side of the debate who think the other is just factually wrong. Not going into your opinion, this is just an example as to why you can’t just throw people’s opinion out in a democratic society. No matter how much you personally disagree