What's the difference between "left" and "right"?

Usually "left" or "right" is used to distinguish political factions or parties. This habit originated from the third-level meeting during the French Revolution. At that time, in France, the first and second classes were privileged classes, including priests and nobles, who did not pay taxes. Louis XVI enjoyed high office and high salary. The third layer includes the bourgeoisie, workers, peasants and urban civilians. They have created wealth, but they have no political status, are economically exploited and have to pay taxes. 1789 In May, in order to solve the financial crisis, King Louis XVI of France held a meeting attended by three-level representatives at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris. The king tried to raise taxes on the third class, while the third class wanted to limit the kingship and carry out reforms. Most of the first-and second-level representatives support the king's opinion and sit on the right side of the king; The representative of the third rank opposed the king's opinion and sat on the king's left. After that, the National Assembly was held, and the radicals who advocated democracy and freedom sat on the left, while the royalists and conservatives sat on the right, which virtually formed the left and right factions.

/kloc-in the 0 ~ (th) century, European parliaments were also divided into left and right factions with the speaker's chair as the boundary. In this way, politically radical or revolutionary factions or parties are called "leftists" or "leftists"; Political conservative or reactionary factions or parties are called "Rightists" or "Rightists". Due to historical reasons, some political parties or groups in some modern capitalist countries call themselves leftists or Rightists. /kloc-in the 0/9th century, some political parties or politicians improvised without fixed political opinions, which was called "opportunism".

Later, in the international proletarian movement, the ideological trend and line that deviated from the basic principles of Marxism appeared within the proletarian party. There are two forms of expression: one is called "left" opportunism, which is characterized by surpassing a certain stage of the objective process and adopting blind radicalism and closed-doorism; The other is right opportunism, which is characterized by forgetting the fundamental plan for immediate temporary interests and trying to guide the proletariat to adapt to the private interests of bourgeois political parties. These two forms of expression are characterized by the separation of subjectivity and objectivity, and the separation of cognition and practice, so they can be transformed into each other under certain conditions. Therefore, "Left" opportunism (sometimes referred to as "Left" for short) is "Left" in form and truly right in essence. Practically speaking, "Left" has played a progressive role in history, but "Left" opportunism has not played a progressive role at all. Therefore, in the history of the international proletarian movement, when writing "Left" opportunism, put quotation marks on the word "Left" to tell people that it is "Left" and right. "Left" means radical, aggressive and reckless. As for "right", it will not cause ambiguity, so there is no need to add "quotation marks".