07-13-2019, 12:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-13-2019, 01:25 PM by Eric the Green.)
Bill the Piper added a "counter-cultural" category to the mix, to make it five.
In effect, the economic scale and its left vs. right battle represents the rise of socialism and what I call the second revolution in the world in our times, and it takes both democratic and totalitarian/statist forms. The neo-liberal economic libertarians and capitalists oppose this revolution. In spiral dynamics terms is it what I call the Lemon side of Orange.
The social and personal scale is basically the original first revolution for individual freedom and rights, and has (especially among today's liberals) taken on the issue of personal rights regardless of race, gender and creed. It is basically the Orange meme. The authoritarian social conservatives oppose these causes.
The third revolution is the counter-cultural element, new since the 1960s, and is Green. It generally folds in with the civil liberal position of social liberal, because it supports the right to have a new freer lifestyle (e.g. anti-drug laws), and is anti-war as libertarians also are. It also supports the civil rights cause in the form of supporting diversity and post-modernism, and supports new age and non-traditional religion. But it also supports environmentalism, which requires the state to restrain and tax capitalism, and this agrees with the economic liberal position. And many (but not all) third revolutionaries/Greens being generally supportive of the progressive side on all issues, it often supports the progressive goals both old and new of both the 1st and 2nd revolutions, as well as those of the 3rd. So it falls on the USA's far left. Meanwhile, the conservatives have gained new strength since the sixties by opposing the counterculture and its aims.
http://philosopherswheel.com/thethreerevolutions.html
The Libertarian Party and libertarians in general as we know them today is also a new feature since at least the 1960s. It departs from and opposes the second revolution and upholds the first. Generally it is not counter-cultural, but some counter-culture people are libertarian Orange instead of Green, and the anti-war and freer lifestyle stances of libertarians, which fold in with their anti-statism, agree with the counter-culture's peace and free lifestyle movements.
In effect, the economic scale and its left vs. right battle represents the rise of socialism and what I call the second revolution in the world in our times, and it takes both democratic and totalitarian/statist forms. The neo-liberal economic libertarians and capitalists oppose this revolution. In spiral dynamics terms is it what I call the Lemon side of Orange.
The social and personal scale is basically the original first revolution for individual freedom and rights, and has (especially among today's liberals) taken on the issue of personal rights regardless of race, gender and creed. It is basically the Orange meme. The authoritarian social conservatives oppose these causes.
The third revolution is the counter-cultural element, new since the 1960s, and is Green. It generally folds in with the civil liberal position of social liberal, because it supports the right to have a new freer lifestyle (e.g. anti-drug laws), and is anti-war as libertarians also are. It also supports the civil rights cause in the form of supporting diversity and post-modernism, and supports new age and non-traditional religion. But it also supports environmentalism, which requires the state to restrain and tax capitalism, and this agrees with the economic liberal position. And many (but not all) third revolutionaries/Greens being generally supportive of the progressive side on all issues, it often supports the progressive goals both old and new of both the 1st and 2nd revolutions, as well as those of the 3rd. So it falls on the USA's far left. Meanwhile, the conservatives have gained new strength since the sixties by opposing the counterculture and its aims.
http://philosopherswheel.com/thethreerevolutions.html
The Libertarian Party and libertarians in general as we know them today is also a new feature since at least the 1960s. It departs from and opposes the second revolution and upholds the first. Generally it is not counter-cultural, but some counter-culture people are libertarian Orange instead of Green, and the anti-war and freer lifestyle stances of libertarians, which fold in with their anti-statism, agree with the counter-culture's peace and free lifestyle movements.