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Characteristics
- The Left includes progressives, social liberals, social democrats, socialists, communists and anarchists
- Human nature "constructed," malleable, perfectible
- Preference for public, state institutions
- Emphasis on legal rights (individual seen as immediate to state, an "atomic" unit)
- Tend to legal positivism [Law as an act of will]
- Inclined to state regulation of economy
- Incline to centralization
- Emphasize equality
- Suspicious of institutional religion
- Tend toward enthusiasm, moralism, utopian reformism to stamp out abuses
- Global focus, international
Institutes & "Think Tanks"
