Politics isn’t a 1 dimensional spectrum. Even 2 dimensions can still be inadequate. Though it is a much better fit. Suficed to say the X axis is generally going to be economic orientation. And the Y axis social orientation. Economic being socialist to capitalist. Social being authoritarian to libertarian. But even then, going to far along social spectrum one direction makes the distinction of capitalism or socialism moot. Authoritarians will use whatever gives them power. They aren’t specifically FOR either. The further you go towards libertarianism however, the less and less feasible something like capitalism gets.

Tbh this is a nonsense idea and politics cannot be accurately in any way summed up as left or right:

Center-left, if we are using those definitions for far-left and left, would probably be social democracy - ie a genuine attempt to redistribute wealth within the framework of a capitalist system.

Center would be Rhineland capitalism - attempts to make a capitalist system with basic controls and direction for the interests of the people or the state.

Center-right would probably be whatever the fuck incoherent shite America has been doing the past 100 years or so, where there’s regulations and a welfare state but the government itself is constantly campaigning against them and shaming its users.

Right would then be the Reaganite trickle-down fever-dream where laws are a suggestion and the accumulation of wealth to the elite is an end in and of itself.

Thus putting far-right as outright fascism or ancapistan.

Op, you’re better off asking this question in a different community like a Ask one.

Community rules state you can only post articles.

The “Center” does not actually exist. Inevitability more political ideas will end up on one side or the other of the spectrum and the person will vote for the party to the right or left of center that believes as they do. This goes for politicians as well.

Enabling fence-dwelling invertebrates?

Socialism has been the middle for 99.99% of human existence…

It’s the center. The natural organization of a human social group. The problem is our brains can only handle ~225 different individuals. After that we have to categorizes everyone else into groups which makes it easier to dehumanize those groups in modern society.

That’s how capitalism became the norm in large societies

If you’re wealthy and you everyone you interact with is wealthy…

Our brains are wired to stop giving a fuck about people not in that small ~225 circle of people.