No you don't "get" anything. To you it doesn't matter how progressive a policy is that the Democrats happen to do, because it will never be enough since its not literally communism. Thats your entire smoothbrained ideology, if you can even call it that. Thats why you and all your so called leftist tankie buddies are fucking morons and not actually leftists. You don't care about socioeconomic equity, all you care about is virtue signalling to your Twitter friends about how based and Marxpilled you are while you label anyone you disagree with a lib. Its clear that in all your time spent in the marketplace of ideas the only two pieces of information you've been able to learn are "communism good" and "capitalism bad". Then you just stopped learning, probably because you got dunked on by an actual leftist, and you've been mad ever since. Its hilarious to me that you would invoke the name of MLK, a socialist, as if you have anything in common with him at all.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Surely, people will stop screeching "You're not a real Marxist-Leninist Maoist!" if we just stop using the term leftism.

    Trying to delegitimize the speakers by calling us phoneys won't work if we're hyper-specific about the title of an ideology our audience knows next to nothing about.

    • LeninsBeard [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There's more options than calling yourself a leftist or a hyper specific ideology y'know. I call myself a communist or revolutionary socialist because I know those won't be coopted by democrats who want to sound progressive.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Democratic Socialist was co-opted straight through 2020. Revolutionary Socialist will get snatched up the moment it gets in vogue. "Communist" is a pejorative that gets thrown around so much it almost doesn't matter if mainstream Dems claim it. It's just a thing Republicans call Democrats, the end.

        If anything, I think we should go the other way. Just call ourselves "Moderate Centrists", "Sensible Independent", or whatever. Dismiss everyone else as extreme and bemoan Both Sides because they Both Suck. Insist the only way forward is municipal self-sufficiency. Do Juche for Middle America.