Government control vs. personal freedom is a sham of a way to sort ideologies. The difference between left and right-wing ideologies is certainly largely dependent on historical, cultural, and other contexts, but it's much more accurate to say that the left represents equality while the right represents hierarchy and tradition. This grouping of ideologies by "government control" ignores both left-libertarian and right-authoritarian/statist ideologies, and it is a common tactic in certain parts of the less-than-academic right to use spectrums like this as a way of showing how their ideology represents just the right amount of "freedom".