ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

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    1 month ago

    left = not capitalism

    right = capitalism

    this definition has formed since more or less (…) since the french revolution and has consolidated along with capitalism itself.

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      51 month ago

      Woll, not that far back, after all the terms came later, but it was fairly set by the turn of the century.

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      41 month ago

      I wouldn’t go that far, in a lot of ways capitalism was the left wing at the time. That was a liberal, ie capitalist, Revolution. Basically all the revolutions between the American Revolution up to 1848 were liberal and capitalist revolutions.

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      11 month ago

      Absolutist monarchism is right wing and not capitalist. Fascism often has anti-capitalist policies.

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      11 month ago

      Absolutist monarchism is right wing and not capitalist. Fascism often has anti-capitalist policies.

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        1 month ago

        fascism is very much capitalism because its still based on the upwards flow of capital. id say moreso than “regular” capitalism.