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Another way of looking at it is to observe that the Right is more desirous of equality of rights, whereas the Left is more desirous of equality of results.

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First, let me say that I think there's some truth here, but this statement really deserves much more inquiry.

To begin, you may want to define what you mean by Left and Right here, in order to get this platitude to have any meaning. If by the 'Right', you mean conservative -- conservatives have historically been much more concerned with social order, tradition, and heritage than they are with an equality of rights. I think it's fair to say that the Right has historically been much more supportive of laissez-faire capitalism than the Left has, but this doesn't necessarily mean they've historically been concerned with an equality of rights.

If by the 'Left', you mean the post-60s left -- much of "the Left" (and I say this with much hesistancy because there's no easy way to define the modern left) are in fact motivated as much by an equality of rights as they are with an equality of results -- you would, I think, be hard-pressed to find many on the American Left who openly (or clandestinley) advocate an equality of results; of course, most anything we might define as being of "the Left" has a history of strong labor activism, and therefore is somewhat sympathetic (if not openly supportive of socialism and/or communism), but it's not necessarily true that labor activism and egalitarianism go hand-in-hand – there are many who support labor activism, and find themselves on ”the Left” only as means to oppose wealth, power, and social order, and don’t necessarily find themselves sympathetic or supportive towards the egalitarian ends that you refer to. And again, I would point to the United States as paradigm for a fully industrialized society that has no serious labor activism, but that has many self-described leftists -- much to the curiousity of sociologists and political scientists alike, who have written rather lengthy tomes (and proposed various theories) to try to explain why the US lacks a serious labor movement that advocates egalitarian ends.

There’s such a disparate and incongruent beliefs within both the "Right" and the "Left" that I'm not sure cliches like "the Right supports equal rights, the Left supports equal results" means much of anything without further detail (much further detail).