It's more complicated than that. There are lots of ways in which we divide up, and in no way would I say that the economic left-right one was the only one or the most important one. But the different ways don't tie up neatly together, they just tend to coincide in some places at some times.

So for example in some places people will automatically see Nationalism as right wing, and in others as left wing. The same libertarian policies can crop up on the left or on the right or in the middle. And, equally, the same types of authoritarianism crop up on the left and the right and in the middle.