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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

When someone calls me a fascist but isn't politically knowledgeable enough to know I'm a centrist 🧘

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

and if somebody wants to know where that character is from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomins

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

[email protected] if you are interested in the comic!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago (8 children)

Okedoke, well I just learned that I have no concrete grasp of political labels and need to do a LOT of research.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Extreme simplification:

Liberalism: supports capitalism. Current system + tweaks

Leftism: supports anticapitalism of some form, the two biggest umbrellas being Marxism/Communism and Anarchism

Marxism/Communism: supports collectivization, public ownership, and central planning (I have an introductory reading list if you want to learn more, or just read Principles of Communism)

Anarchism: supports full horizontalism and networks of communes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Thank you for the reading list! I'll take a gander :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

They're conveniently leaving out the entire concept of Socialism for some reason, while making sure to mention Marxism by name.

So I would make sure to add that to the list. Communism is a specific form of socialism, but the two are non synonymous.