Quote Originally Posted by Ironside
The left-right scale contains slightly more things than that. Besides, state control becomes quite a poor measurement when you consider that the least state controlled economies are in the middle...

If you're really going for the original scale than it's conservative (right)-radical/progressive (left).
I'm not at all going for any original scale. Being pro human rights doesn't really conflict with anything but authoritarianism.

state control becomes quite a poor measurement when you consider that the least state controlled economies are in the middle...
Please elaborate why it has to be so.