Główne idee nowej prawicy i nowej lewicy

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to draw attention to the problem of the division of socio-political life on the right and left and the doctrinal assumptions of the new right and the new left, which are then expressed in social and political programs. The object of these analyzes, however, are not specific political groups or their forms of activity, but only ideological assumptions of social movements. The paper has three parts: 1) it points out that there is no clear criterion for division into right and left, and the use of these terms is polarizing and is conditioned historically, culturally and geographically; 2) the main principles of the new right are presented (economic liberalism, conservatism, minimal state and government, free market, anti-egalitarianism); 3) the ideas of the new left wing were shown (new man, counterculture, criticism, egalitarianism, emancipation, ecology, pacifism).