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Margarita Rosa de Francisco begins her publication in El Tiempo by defining what for her the right, the center and the left are in politics.
Regarding the first current, he says that “although it also encompasses diverse ideologies, it is compatible with the established order, individualism, free market competition, traditions and the predominance of private property, among many other things.” It points out that the left is the opposite, because “it is positioned in favor of secularism, collectivism, public interest, equal opportunities, progressivism and solidarity economy”; while the center “tries to establish a balance between right and left, sometimes with more emphasis on one or the other.”
However, De Francisco indicates that in Colombia these concepts are different. According to her, who makes the explanation in a trill (because she says that it was not expressed well in the column), for those on the right, those who do not follow them, are on the left; for those on the left, those in the center are from the right and what they call the “radical left” is considered the center.
There is one thing that I did not express well in this column: for the Colombian right, everything that is not right is left. For those on the left, the center is right. For contemporary democracies, what they here call the “radical left” is the center. https://t.co/EurKo5Cuby
– Margarita Rosa (@Margaritarosadf) October 22, 2020
In that sense, De Francisco says that, as the right wing has insisted on instilling fear of communism, she has had a “process of ‘mamertization'”, which consists of studying what the “extreme left of Petro” proposes, which according to the previous explanation would be the center.
“I have not come across, until now, a single premise that is not focused on flat capitalism, but concentrated on a different kind of productivity, harmonized with the well-being of the planet, and with a hardly fair state presence to guarantee the education and health that the dignity of any human being deserves “, concludes the columnist.
Margarita Rosa de Francisco’s text is reminiscent of a column by Luis Carlos Vélez some time ago, in which he also assures that there is a different conceptualization in Colombia of what is right, center and left.
On that occasion, Vélez pointed out in El Espectador that in the country a right-wing person is classified as “Uribista” and, therefore, It seems that “the politically correct thing is to be left or center-left”, which is a “serious mistake”.
“Being critical of the left is not being a Uribe member, just as being critical of the right is not being a guerrilla. The silent majority of Colombia, the one who lives their day to day working, building a better future under the sun and the rain, is not at any of those damn extremes, “he wrote then.
Both columnists agree that this conceptualization of Colombian politics is exacerbated by the political upheaval that is constantly on social networks.
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