Title says it all... I’m curious about the terminology - why use the left and right directions? Why is liberalism left and not right, and vice versa?
u/texehCtpaxa answered a similar question on this sub a few weeks ago (cant link it sadly).
He explains how left and right subdivision has been coming from the early days of the French revolution were the Estates General delegates started assembling in vague parties for and against the king and how it extended over europe and the new world.