• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Leftism is intersectional. So having communities that agree with one another but disagree with others is often the state of things. One community can get more accomplished if they agree internally. Liberals are not leftists.

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      1 year ago

      Majority of people who vote left wing are liberals and most leftwing policy in the west is based in liberal values. It seems to be only a small set of people on the left that are not liberal.

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        1 year ago

        Being left of center is not being a “leftist.”

        Leftists are commies. That’s why this guy is arguing that liberalism is right-wing. Anything that isn’t communism is right-wing to him.

        The real reason there are no leftists in US politics is that outside of a few small internet circles, there are vanishingly few leftists in America.

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          1 year ago

          Maybe I need to read more on where the term leftisn comes from. I was under the impression it referred to any left wing voter.

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            “Leftism” is a philosophy, namely that collectivist solutions are the correct answer to all societal problems. It is the purview of a “leftist” or someone who adheres to communist (or otherwise generally some type of Marxist or post-Marxist) thought.

            I definitely understand the confusion if you didn’t know that.