US I m trying not to just be a whinger and a hand waver here but it annoys me that there s an entire section devoted to left vs right politics in the US yet there s nothing similar regarding the rest of the world The US bias of wikipedia is very irritating sometimes though it shouldn t be as most Internet users are in the U S In other words i m a whiny European who is too lazy to write a non US section From the US That s easy to fix Start writing more about non US views on topics creating topics and getting your friends to help Something that is created by users being called biased only reflects the predominant users posting and thus can easily be remedied Also from the US No it s NOT so easy to fix Throughout Wikipedia you will see entries from obviously American authors who have no concept of a world view and automatically write from a US perspective without any attempt to qualify their language What therefore tends to happen is that the US view becomes a default with international views living in ghetto ized paragraphs Also from the US That is actually kind of the problem with Wikipedia all around in the first place and that is that popular ideas are not necessarily correct You can have people posting information about the corruptibility of whatever organization but then the organization can have its people change the entry the next day Preceding unsigned comment added by This entire dicussion lends a great deal of credibilty to the idea that the left right spectrum poorly represents political and economic views It seems to me that most of the debate below is equivalent to attempting to define the square root of negative 1 with only real numbers at our disposal It is painfully obvious that politics is muli dimensional The most that can be hoped for here is to describe how the left right spectrum is used and leave it at that This should probably be a very short article Preceding unsigned comment added by Better Chart I think that this page needs a metter chart Like this one Edit I actually think that the article in fact the whole political movement needs a better definition of left right Most political parties can not adhere to a single category including revolutionnary movements and far right groups as described somewhere else in the discussion I suggest a new use of the left right compass The political compass uses the square system with two axis x and y social and conomic which is not very accurate because I know my political ideas and they tend to be pretty nearer to Mussolini than to Gandhi Whatever What I suggest is a cube 3 axis x y and z conomic Social Politic The first one defines the market system if any of a political group The second defines the social standing of a political group about the welfare of the people welfare checks charity private public school medical system etc The thirds one is basically the way a society treats it s people rehabilitation punishment democracy totaliratism in which I include Soviet Communism etc What do you think Preceding unsigned comment added by Interesting book I came across this book Left and Right in Global Politics by Alain No l and Jean Philippe Th rien I haven t read it yet but it seems to be of great interest Removing unneccessary detail I am removing several paragraphs that are unhelpful to the article Edmund Burke terms left and right not used in UK then Adam Smith terms left and r