• @[email protected]
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    103 months ago

    At least some definition of “Far Left” would be more: “we’re gonna get everyone’s basic needs meet by exterminating entire social groups because they’re impure”.

    What the hell are you talking about? “Exterminatidg entrire social groups because they’re impure” sounds very right-wing to me.

    Are you trying to peddle some weird horseshoe bullshit?

    • Annie (she/her)
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      63 months ago

      people will refer to landlords as a ‘social group’ rather than advocate for anything non-milquetoast its par for the course

    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

      Change “impure” for “bourgeoisie”, “imperialistic”, “exploitative”, or some other arbitrary bs

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        33 months ago

        Yeah, you’re still talking no sense. What do you mean by “social group”?

        Get your strawman out of here.

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          13 months ago

          What do you mean by “social group”?

          I didn’t use the term “social group” anywhere. Come back when you’re sober.

          • @[email protected]
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            43 months ago

            I didn’t use the term “social group” anywhere.

            Ok, let me rephrase the question, then:

            Why do you engage in a conversation that you weren’t a part of, if you’re going to ignore the context of the conversation? That conversation contained the following, two comments before you entered:

            exterminating entire social groups

            Come back when you’re sober.

            No reason to get rude.

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              13 months ago

              Why do you engage in a conversation that you weren’t a part of, if you’re going to ignore the context of the conversation?

              You asking me what did I mean by social groups when I didn’t mention social groups is “ignoring the context of the conversation”. Just admit you were a lil bit drunk and took me for the wrong person.

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                23 months ago

                I think it’s fair to assume that you were the one who wrote “social groups”.

                Even if you didn’t yourself say that term: You accepted the terminology, so I’ll ask you: how are landlords a “social group” that the “far left” wants to “exterminate”.

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                  13 months ago

                  How about we skip this step and you just tell us your definition of “social groups” and it will turn out that people “far right” want to “exterminate” are social groups, but people “far left” want to “exterminate” aren’t social groups (and aren’t really fully fledged humans, if you ask me (dehumanizing you enemies is important)).

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                    I’m actually more opposed to the term “exterminate”. The far left would actually rather “expropriate” that certain “social group”.

                    To “exterminate a social group” means genocide done by the exterminators. To expropriate the wealthy class usually means that the to be expropriated class shoots first.

                    But you centrists usually can’t tell the difference between violence and expropriation.

                    Edit: I’ve been looking through your comments. “I never said ‘social groups’! uwu” my ass!

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      @Prunebutt
      China? Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?

      I know the horseshoe theory is problematic, but it’s fact that some nominally “left” groups in practice resemble the “far right”; today’s China specially in practice resembles more Nazism than Communism.

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        23 months ago

        I don’t consider China to be very left. It’s a capitalist country. The same goes for other state-capitalist projects.

        While there are authoritarian leftists, I think it’s wrong to act as if these where the only part of the so-called “far left”. How many genocides were committed by anarchists?

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          13 months ago

          There are more figures on the far left than anarchists. You can’t just No true Scotsman Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.

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            03 months ago

            Did those people try to deconstruct existing power structures while in office? That makes them counter revolutionary. The state is counter revolutionary.

            You can’t abolish maters by using the master’s tools.

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              That’s just a No true Scotsman argument. Their (alleged) end goal was the creation of a classless, stateless communist society. They haven’t achieved that, and they wouldn’t have claimed to have achieved that. But they would’ve claimed that their crimes were a necessary step towards that goal. You can’t just brush aside the people most associated with the “far left” label, regardless of whether or not you personally feel like they are “undeserving” of it.