So I asked you: ‘What is the right, exactly?’ After your usual journey through the mists of history – describing how in the National Assembly spawned by the French Revolution in 1789, hardened revolutionaries wanting to topple the King and his regime sat on the left-hand side of the assembly, while the King’s supporters took the seats on the right; how later, once capitalism had been established, the right came to be identified with the interests of capitalists and a fervent opposition to organised labour or state intervention
