>>166985
conservative-progressive has nothing to do with left-right political axis

left-right dichotomy is meaningless anyway, there is a noticeable regression to the mean since marx and engels published their communism manifesto

look at modern China and Vietnam (and NEP Soviet Union) - leninist party and capitalism mix like bread and butter

Lenin inventing modern vanguard party might be the biggest self-own in human history

Nazi Germany and Stalinist Soviet Union had obvious parallels too

there is some deeper mechanism at work here, that goes beyond some simple left-right political affiliation