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Can someone explained what hexbear is?
Removed by modI see all over Lemmy, people really seem to hate hexbear, and I don't get it. Can someone explain why most of Lemmy seems to absolutely hate them?
Hexbear is a leftist-unity instance of mostly socialists, communists, and anarchists.
Most people on Reddit are liberals (just look at how pro-israel Reddit is right now), so naturally alot of people migrating from Reddit didn't like it.
This, and a lot of liberals are entirely unaware of anything left of social democrats, so they're genuinely confused by anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism.
This results in democrats accusing HB of being trump supporters, conservatives accusing HB of being liberals, and both accusing them of being paid shills of foreign countries.
Huh, TIL that "liberals" doesn't include socialists and communists. I always thought of "liberals" and "conservatives" as general terms for left and right.
Liberalism fundamentally has an incompatiblity with socialism and communism because it's fubdamentally rooted in the rights of an individual to own land and/or the means of production, as well as supporting market economies.
This is in stark contrast to workers owning the means of production, or seizing private property for the greater good.
Liberals in other countries tend to be centre right, such as the Australian liberals or a fair amount of European liberals.
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I know, I'm German. Looks like I've mostly heard these terms used by Americans.
Yeah no from what I've heard, it's just as bad in Germany, with Die Linke being controlled by social democrats. Which is weird considering East Germany is still in living memory and (I'd hope) your education covering how the nazis rose to power, since the split between liberals and communists is pretty important.
I'll be honest, I'm irony poisoned enough to can't tell if you're joking or just an American.
But just in case you're serious, I'll give a real short crash course on the difference between the left and right - and I mean this is really low brow basic that would get me shit for vulgarizing it so much.
If you wish to abolish the capitalist economic mode of production and establish a socialist economic mode of production, you're on the left.
If you do not wish to do that, you're on the right. This is why we - communists - call everyone from social democrats to fascists "Right-ists". They do not seek to abolish the current form of economic production, but preserve it. Ergo, why we call everyone liberals, for wanting to preserve the liberal market economy.
No, I'm not joking, my confusion stemmed from the fact that those who used those terms always seemed to mean them in the way I described. (Probably mostly Americans who grew up with the two party system)
In Germany - at least in my bubble - we don't talk about "liberals" vs "conservatives", the spectrum is more diverse.
What Exactly is Liberalism? (no, it's not about being "woke")
What is Socialism?
The Problem With Harm Reduction: Why Liberalism Won't Solve Anything
Conservatives are conservatives because they're completely politically illiterate lol; of course they won't use terms like "liberals" and "socialists" correctly.
There was a similar use in the 17 and 1800s when conservatives were the upper nobility and liberals were the lower nobility and capitalists (this caused problems when the liberals, who used the working class to carry out their revolution, then turned on the working class when their own aims were achieved, since at that point, the interests of the lower nobility+capitalist classes diverged with the working class, which typically left the liberals unable to defend themselves from the forces of reaction. This happened at least 5 different times.).
Today though, conservatives are still liberal.
That's only true conversationally in America.
Wait, Reddit is pro-Israel now? I haven't been there in a while (to be honest, since before this topic escalated) but that surprises me
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A few of the U.K. specific ones are as well. But then there are some subs pro Palestine.