Goldberg observes that the left-right political binary was not fully established in America until the 1920s when journalists covering the Soviet Union and Europe began describing politics in left-right terms, and this binary reorganization erased entire ideological traditions like Bellamy-Nationalism and Georgism that did not fit neatly into either camp.
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“the binary of left and right...utterly erases the Bellamyism and and the Georgism...you go either all in on right or you go all in on left...to be in the middle is like trying to straddle a canyon”
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