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  • swampfox [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Liberals can't suffer a Marxist because it's proof in-the-flesh that humans aren't driven by self-interest alone and thus self-interest =/= rationality.

    We are walking evidence of why markets can't solve everything and so they resolve to purge us to maintain the lie.

    • RandyLahey [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      an evergreen - why liberals hate leftists

      Liberals hate leftists because they’ve spent their whole lives building and reinforcing a worldview which validates war, oligarchy and exploitation while thinking of themselves as defenders of equality and sanity, so when someone comes in promoting an ideology which highlights the discrepancy between those two points the cognitive dissonance which sets in makes them feel like the leftist just slapped them in the face.

      ...

      Liberals hate leftists for the same reason you’d hate someone who keeps yelling out “This is all fake! Those are actors!” at a theater: they disrupt a pleasant illusion the liberals are trying to enjoy about villains being fought by heroic protagonists.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I think you're assuming far too much realpolitik to the lib ideology. Their ideology is nothing more than

      "they are good, they read all the things that they're supposed to and say all the things they're supposed to, and it feels good to be good. Anyone who doesn't do this is ontologically evil at worst, and an unthinking child at best"

      There's nothing more, there's no connection to material reality and national/individual self interest ideology like the cold-war era conservatives.

      It's just a cargo cult performing the correct rituals which can never be changed, even if it means their loss and death.

      • swampfox [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I'd agree that it operates subconsciously for most of them (those simply cudgeled into assimilation, especially). But, I know some in real life who actively live and breathe the ideology, too.

        The difference is usually whether they are confused by the behavior/thoughts of a Marxist or outright angered by them.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, there's a few MoralIntern types. But even they have a very different view of the world to Conservative liberals. One seeks Ideological and superstructure control, the other control of the base social and material relations.

          • swampfox [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            yeah, honestly I find the former more disturbing; something about them realizing that the liberal mythos has to be whipped into everyone in order to perpetuate it is just creepy.

            and of course, as always, they accuse their ideological opponents of what they themselves actually do.