• CorruptBuddha@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The left/right distinction is to determine if something is pro or anti capitalism. If you like capitalism or think it can be "reformed" then you are right wing. If you want to see capitalism destroyed, then you are left wing.

    I don't agree.

    From what I see there's a strong effort to redefine terms like left and right to shame people into adjusting their values.

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      no, that happened ages ago. for most of the twentieth century leftwing meant anticapitalist.

        • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Hey liberal, I see you're running afoul of our "Post"-based posting rules here. If you'd like I can explain them so fewer of your comments are removed.

          Also, just because liberal hegemony brutally suppressed the left in the west for the last ~150 years (including the present day) doesn't mean that liberalism magically became left wing as a result. Liberalism hasn't been left-wing since the mid-19th century. So now it's our turn to ask you, sorry what year is it again?

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          liberals can insist they're left all they like. it doesn't make it true.

            • silent_water [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              I don't think you know what that term means. also, my meaning of left connects me with historical movements while yours infinitely atomizes. which meaning is more useful?

              • CorruptBuddha@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                1 year ago

                I don't think you know what that term means.

                Or is that just want you want me to think!?!

                also, my meaning of left connects me with historical movements while yours infinitely atomizes. which meaning is more useful?

                I think trying to grade political ideology on a left/right axis doesn't really make a ton of sense, and really only servers to muddy the waters, and create a sense of consensus that isn't really there.

                What's the significance of feeling connected to historical movements?

                • silent_water [she/her]
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                  1 year ago

                  I get to analyze possible actions based on the works and results others have produced. it makes it more likely that I'll succeed. to atomize oneself away from history is to destroy the possibility of progress.