• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      21 days ago

      Mostly that works because what the establishment thinks of as left is really centralist. Real leftists would advocate for socialism.

      Of course the US goes even further into the insane category by basically just having everyone be right-wing with different flavors.

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        21 days ago

        Real leftists would advocate for socialism.

        True, but there are there differing approaches to socialism: MLs want authoritarian socialism (government runs everything), while Democratic Socialists usually want a hybrid of market socialism (co-ops) and government run socialism for needs that free market co-ops cannot address. And then there are libertarian socialists who want only worker owned co-ops and syndicates. Finally, we have SocDems that want indirect socialism where strong regulations and labor protections try to achieve socialist goals through capitalism.

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        20 days ago

        Real leftists would advocate for socialism.

        Only socialism? Fucking LIB! A real Leftist would have advocated for Communism!

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        20 days ago

        Did you do that on purpose? Illustrate the truth of the joke by no-true-Scotsmaning leftism, I mean? Because if so, bravo, and if not, lol

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        21 days ago

        Oh, so is my syndicalist ass a centrist? What about my mutualist wife? There’s the MLs vs the MLMs (who almost nuked each other). We managed to form two separate armies in most socialist revolutions