<P> The right is always the party sector associated with the interests of the upper or dominant classes, the left the sector expressive of the lower economic or social classes, and the centre that of the middle classes . Historically this criterion seems acceptable . The conservative right has defended entrenched prerogatives, privileges and powers; the left has attacked them . The right has been more favorable to the aristocratic position, to the hierarchy of birth or of wealth; the left has fought for the equalization of advantage or of opportunity, for the claims of the less advantaged . Defense and attack have met, under democratic conditions, not in the name of class but in the name of principle; but the opposing principles have broadly corresponded to the interests of the different classes . </P> <P> Generally, the left - wing is characterized by an emphasis on "ideas such as freedom, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism", while the right - wing is characterized by an emphasis on "notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism". </P> <P> Political scientists and other analysts regard the Left as including anarchists, communists, socialists, democratic socialists, social democrats, left - libertarians, progressives and social liberals . Movements for racial equality and trade unionism have also been associated with the left . </P> <P> Political scientists and other analysts regard the Right as including Christian democrats, conservatives, right - libertarians, neoconservatives, imperialists, monarchists, fascists, reactionaries and traditionalists . </P>

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