What is a Liberal?, a Conservative?, a Progressive?

How can we characterize anyone’s politics, and that of any regime, with simple easily-understood labels that then enable us to compare political entities across the spans of geography and history?

The following article describes my system for classifying politics.

Left Conservatives Under Right Progressives
3 December 2012
http://www.swans.com/library/art18/mgarci58.html

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