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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (19 children)
  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    In a weird way, it's kind of "so left wing it curled round the back and ended up on the far right".

    If you think of "left wing" as in "we support Pol Pot, Stalin, Putin etc" rather than "let's open a community-run vegan art cafe to promote understanding between diverse social groups".

    Wikipaedia article here

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    “let’s open a community-run vegan art cafe to promote understanding between diverse social groups”.

    It wasn't a vegan art cafe, but the town I grew up in opened a community-run "Peace and Justice Center" that was a direct evolution from the protest camp that was set up at the start of the 1992 Iraq war. It lasted about 2 months because they had no idea what a peace and justice center was supposed to do. They did let several homeless people sleep there in violation of zoning regulations, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I agree with your characterisation, but obviously I think that version of left-wing isn't really left. It's state capitalism with a red flag.

    That said, I'd add that the anarchist and other libertarian leftists (ancaps stole the word libertarian from the left btw) absolutely have revolutionary aims and activities, we aren't just sitting around singing kumbaya. I didn't sense you were trying to belittle us but I wanted to add that.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're right to give it a little more detail - my slightly silly summary skipped over a lot.

    Definitely not trying to belittle anyone, though I am slightly poking fun at myself :)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Funny, both the Cambridge and Dictionary.com (among others) seem to think it is.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It doesn’t make much sense. Stalin practiced Marxism-Leninism and didn’t consider himself to be inventing any new ideology.

    It’s about as ridiculous as “Bidenomics” — just what exactly is Biden actually doing differently?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    People actually take Bidenomics seriously...? I thought it was a meme like dark brandon.

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    There's two definitions, the former means redfash who overlook the fascist elements of former socialisms, particularly those of Marxist-Leninist orientation. (the fact they use tankie rather than redfash should tell you they're not entirely comfortable using fascist as a pejorative, want to guess why?)

    The latter is basically a dog whistle used by reactionaries to mean communist. Basically a synonym of "woke" for those not overtly racist and applies to anyone with left-of-hitler politics. Think your blue maga types who swear they're progressive.

    Regardless, the word was invented by the CIA to sew division among the left and should not be used by anyone.

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