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Traditionally “left” and “right” are defined like this
 
Left: wanting larger government with more control, usually socialists
, but fascists and communists fit into this  
Right: wanting less government with more freedom of the people, “true” democrats(not left wing activists who call themselves that as a misnomer), libertarians, and on the absolute extreme anarchists.
 
This chart actually is rather accurate, as the neither the American right-wing or left-wing parties are truly on the “right-wing” side, republicans and other “right” parties just happen to be closer to the right than them. Or course different political systems can be graphed on many many more axes than just right to left. If you included all potiental spectrums you’d have some kind of multidimensional spectrum field

Traditionally “left” and “right” are defined like this
Left: wanting larger government with more control, usually socialists
Right: wanting less government with more freedom of the people, “true” democrats(not left wing activists who call themselves that as a misnomer), libertarians, and on the absolute extreme anarchists.
This chart actually is rather accurate, as the neither the American right-wing or left-wing parties are truly on the “right-wing” side, republicans and other “right” parties just happen to be closer to the right than them. Or course different political systems can be graphed on many many more axes than just right to left. If you included all potiental spectrums you’d have some kind of multidimensional spectrum field