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At the same time, "Left Wing" is usually used to describe a tolerant leniency, a moral flexibility, and non-confrontationality while "Right Wing" is usually assigned to conservatism, militarism, and religious fundamentalism.
Since there are PLENTY of capitalist atheist pacifists, and no end to profiteering, self-aggrandizing Marxists, it is obvious that there is no genuinely demonstrable polarity.
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Marxists aren't morally flexible believe that force is necessary to produce chance. They also have an notion of history that practically behaves like a God.
In the US you have the problem that someone who follows the political philosophy (as defined in the 19th century and outside the US) of liberalism is called a conservative.
Propaganda worked in no average person in the US understands what a political philosophy entails.
American language got destroyed in a Orwellian way, that makes it hard to talk about poltical ideas. The words don't have a polarized meaning but have lost a clear meaning.
Much of the actions of the Democratic party or the Republicans aren't motivated by political philosophy but by realpolitiks (yes, realpolitik is really spelled with k at the end).
Just because the Republican party started to believe in waging war doesn't mean that the idea of waging war is conservative.
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Mother Teresa in Calcutta was satisfying her existential craving for communing with her god, guarantying her eventual sanctity, and her legacy. These things ARE REWARDS IN THEMSELVES, and compensated her for her 'sacrifice'.
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Just because someone gets a reward doesn't mean that the reward was the course for their action.