First off, it is important to point out that the left-right political scale is incomplete and as such it is false way of looking at the political spectrum. It contains only the economic part of the political spectrum. On the left side of this scale are those who want varying degrees of government control over the economy. Those include progressives, socialists, and communists at the far left. On the right side are those who want greater freedom of the country's economy. Those include conservatives, libertarians, and anarchists at the far right.