{"id":5691,"date":"2017-03-12T20:41:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T19:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2023-08-01T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T09:54:17","slug":"left-and-right-according-to-olivier-meuwly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/history\/left-and-right-according-to-olivier-meuwly\/","title":{"rendered":"Left and right according to Olivier Meuwly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='content_excerpt'>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Are the political labels \u00ableft\u00bb and \u00abright\u00bb relevant? Do they really mean anything? Shouldn't they be used more sparingly, as our editor-in-chief advocated in his editorial of October 2015? Historian Oliver Meuwly believes that these two categories have been inseparable from political thought since the French Revolution, and that they enable us to pinpoint the trends that characterize our political landscape. 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