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[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@amerika @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

> Egalitarianism is the root of the Left

Are you sure about this?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@amerika @LookBehindYouNowAndThen Imagine a horse with two legs. Doesn't mean that four legs are what makes a horse a horse. That's a parts-to-whole fallacy.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@realcaseyrollins @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

The core philosophy of the Left is egalitarianism; this is inherent in their origin both in the ancient times and in Revolutionary France.

"left, in politics, the portion of the political spectrum associated in general with egalitarianism and popular or state control of the major institutions of political and economic life."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/left

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@realcaseyrollins @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

A couple more links:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism/

https://iep.utm.edu/egalitarianism/

These are about the philosophy, but you can see the divisions in Leftism from classical liberal through Communism play out in these arguments.