It is common to say that someone who is far too conservative or reactionary to modern tastes is "to the right of Genghis Khan", but is it true that Genghis Khan could be considered right-wing?
He did destroy the traditional Mongol way of life and created a whole new multicultural and meritocratic bureaucracy to manage their empire, isn't this sort of a left-wing thing to do?
>>923398
>applying the right/left dichotomy to a fucking medieval-era conqueror
You might as well ask if Genghis was more of a Protestant or a Catholic.
>>923398
I've always hated that stupid phrase for precisely that reason
Temujin is an annoying historical figure because just about everyone knows of him yet hardly anyone actually knows anything about him
>>923428
>>923433
You can apply "right/left" dichotomy to premodern politics in certain cases. For example, Gracchi, Marius and Caesar were clearly left-wing, while Sulla and Pompey were right-wing.
>>923478
There's still no argument for extending the comparison to Genghis Khan, since most modern democratic modern states claim ideological successorship from classical civilization, but not from the Mongols.
>>923398
>multicultural
if you conquer multiple cultures it isn't multicultural by design
>meritocratic
liberals are opposed to meritocracy
>bureaucracy
it was a brutal autocracy not like the bureaucracy that hands you your welfare check
>>923478
Calling anyone before the French Revolution left or right is fucking stupid and pointless
>>923633
1. Not true
2. Tru
3. You are exaggerating
>>923478
how the fuck were marius, caesar, etc. left-wing? They were fucking men seeking power. Besides, most roman aristocrats were conservative as fuck
