I do wish in hindsight I’d made that more explicit. I used those terms in an attempt to show (among many other things) how “left vs right” isn’t a universally natural schema for political thought, but is instead the product of specific circumstances making a specific pair of coalitional strategies appealing, so that trying to categorize political thought outside the context of that particular coalitional battle as “left” and “right” is confused. But I don’t seem to have communicated that clearly.
I do wish in hindsight I’d made that more explicit. I used those terms in an attempt to show (among many other things) how “left vs right” isn’t a universally natural schema for political thought, but is instead the product of specific circumstances making a specific pair of coalitional strategies appealing, so that trying to categorize political thought outside the context of that particular coalitional battle as “left” and “right” is confused. But I don’t seem to have communicated that clearly.