How do you Define Left and Right?

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A lot of people seem to have different definitions of "left" and "right", even though the "wikipedia" definition, which I use, seems to be that the left emphasizes egalitarianism and the right doesn't.

on the right track there but its a little deeper than that. it's pretty much nature vs nurture. everything the left approaches is pretty much from the perspective that very little if anything is innate. we are all blank slates. everything is a 'social construct' to be relentlessly and rapidly improved upon. 'people are the same everywhere you go.' of course the right (the actual right) has always been the polar opposite of this.

Alternatively, someone on the right may consider that the nurture provided by a culture and its institutions holds a deep depository of wisdom that should not be cast aside in favor of some untested dreamed-up order. 

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Throughout the world, Adolf Hitler, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, etc. are all classified as extreme-right, even though there are a lot of differences between the them. Perhaps a valid definition that applies to all political situations throughout the world can be created by finding what all of the people classified as "right wing" (or left) throughout the world have in common?

What the right-wing has in common for the most part is opposition to the left - the left being ideas about progress in creating a new order based on equality and being unshackled by tradition.  The complication comes from the fact that in the postWW2 era the right sometimes ends up seeking to change governments and cultural institutions away from a program that was left-wing to some degree but is now status quo.