Is the left/right battle destined to go on forever if it's in our genes?

[bi0boy]

Given that the adoption of a right/left wing world view could well have a genetic component, there will surely always be a significant amount of the population on each side of the political divide. The idea that one might convince everyone that the other people are wrong and that everyone should work towards their version of utopia is surely doomed to fail unless some kind of mass eugenics/wholesale slaughter is employed.

How would a future communist/liberal/anarchist society deal with right-wingers if their world view is engendered not by some decision to be selfish but by glutamate receptors in their brain or the way their instinctive disgust reaction is propagated by their olfactory system?

 

[Pickman's model]

Given that the adoption of a right/left wing world view could well have a genetic component,

given bollocks. have you nothing, not even from a conspiraloon site, to give some backing however small to this assertion?

 

[bi0boy]

given bollocks. have you nothing, not even from a conspiraloon site, to give some backing however small to this assertion?

This seminal work for starters:

A Genome-Wide Analysis of Liberal and Conservative Political Attitudes

 

[Pickman's model]

This seminal work for starters:

A Genome-Wide Analysis of Liberal and Conservative Political Attitudes

see? you can do it when you try.

 

[bi0boy]

see? you can do it when you try.

People might find this useful: left right politics genes - Google Search

 

[Santino]

The attitudes would still be subject to social determination. Genetically right-wing people in an anarchist utopia wouldn't spontaneously form a Conservative and Unionist Party, just as genetically left-wing people in ancient Rome didn't set up trade unions.

 

[Pickman's model]

This seminal work for starters:

A Genome-Wide Analysis of Liberal and Conservative Political Attitudes

what this does not explain is why new political ideologies, e.g. fascism, receive support nor why regimes which don't fit the (fairly) moderate left/right fit receive support.

 

[ViolentPanda]

This seminal work for starters:

A Genome-Wide Analysis of Liberal and Conservative Political Attitudes

Hmm, a little bit socio-biological, and very behaviourist.

 

[JimW]

Can't be arsed to read a paper with such a silly premise but I presume they'll be talking more about social attitudes rather than a genetic basis to the property question?

 

[Pickman's model]

i see the original article's been cited something like 120 times, which suggests to me either that a lot of people like the sounds of this sort of socio-biological bit or that a lot of people have been attacking it.

 

[Rimbaud]

Isn't the genetic aspect more to do with openness to new ideas versus defense of the status quo? "Genetically" conservative people in, for example, the USSR would have had pretty different political views than "genetically" conservative people in the USA.

 

[phildwyer]

How can it be in our genes if it's only existed since 1789?