I've visited the r/ultraleft sub and they are all really angry about it. Is this some kind of meme?
If I had to guess it's because they see the term leftist as another meaningless term like progressive, which I kinda agree with. I think refusing to be labeled a leftist is dumb but I definitely hate when people say "leftism"
People always say "Read theory, just read theory", then the leftcoms pull up pretending like they understood Hegel & everyone's like "Fuck off nerd"
I wondered the same thing as you but then I've been thinking that I can't really judge what leftcoms say as a whole based off the comments of a few redditors. So who knows.
Well those few redditors make up about 50% of leftcoms in the world so
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_communism
They see themselves as further left than other socialists
I don't think self identifying left communists (which even a term does not make much sense to identify as today) if they are at all coherent would even use the ultraleft subreddit, they would not like the label.
I mean, it's mostly a meme sub. I don't know anything about the tendency outside of a couple of Wikipedia articles, but I just can't get enough of those Bordiga photos.
It's not so much a tendency as a collection of political positions and tendencies, some of which oppose each other, all under a broad label because they started as offering criticisms of the comitern from the left.
