Right-Wing Politics

Right-Wing Politics or the Political Right are a range of political perspectives which emphasise the importance, benefits, inevitability and normalcy of hierarchy. Right-wing politics often emphasises the importance of concepts like loyalty, respect for authority, purity, family, tradition, hard work and a natural order. In addition, strong belief in capitalism and opposition to modern social justice movements is seen as a right-wing belief, despite frequent conflicts with the anti-capitalist right.

Psychology

According to Moral Foundations Theory, right-wing politics values the concept of:

• Care: cherishing and protecting others; opposite of harm
• Fairness: rendering justice according to shared rules; opposite of cheating
• Loyalty or ingroup: standing with your group, family, nation; opposite of betrayal
• Authority or respect: submitting to tradition and legitimate authority; opposite of subversion
• Sanctity or purity: abhorrence for disgusting things, foods, actions; opposite of degradation

In contrast to the political left, who only embrace the concepts of care and fairness, and value the concepts much more highly.

Right-Wing Ideas

• Fascism
• Conservatism
• Right-Libertarianism
• Anarcho-Capitalism