Any movement or ideology which seeks to create a revolutionary transfiguration or reconceptualization of man and society (a 'new man')) is the antithesis of right-wing. Examples of such movements are progressivism, positivism, marxism, psychoanalysis, communism, and national socialism.

Such movements enbody a fundamental rejection of tradition whereas the right defends tradition. The claim, for example, that Western Civilization is basically bad, fundamentally mistaken, or rotten to the core cannot be accurately characterized as right-wing.

In the Western cultural context, an ideology which publicly or privately rejects key aspects of Western Civilization such as monogamy, family, freedom, and Christianity is not right-wing. Neither Marxism nor National Socialism is right-wing.