If you were ever curious why post-leftists, such as Aimee Terese, call themselves Marxist but not leftist, you're in luck! This article, written by Benedict Cryptofash, is the first in a series that makes the argument that Marx was not a leftist.
If you were ever curious why post-leftists, such as Aimee Terese, call themselves Marxist but not leftist, you're in luck! This article, written by Benedict Cryptofash, is the first in a series that makes the argument that Marx was not a leftist.
Their criticism of liberal idpol, utopian leftism and bourgeois ideology are all fine. But they have to counter that with a vision of truly radical social change that doesn’t give power to reactionary and conservative politics and ideology. Class reductionism is a tool of the capitalists to hamper the development of socialism from within and prevent us from reaching communism.