cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5805515

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    5 hours ago

    Left and right didn't refer to specific political ideologies until at least the late 19th century. Before then the terms referred to seating arrangements in a parliament.

    In Shelley's time the terms would have been something more like colors, like red/white, or reference to specific movements like Republicans or jacobins