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Most long-standing spectra include a right wing and left wing, which originally referred to seating arrangements in the 18th century French parliament.

According to the simplest left-right axis, communism and socialism are usually regarded internationally as being on the left, opposite fascism and conservatism on the right.

Liberalism can mean different things in different contexts, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right.

There is politics that rejects the conventional left-right spectrum, this is known as syncretic politics.