Seems You want to be sarcastic with this question. Care to give an example to back up Your argument? I might be wrong, but I think “totalitarian” is the opposite of leftism.
That’s not a far left position, though. That’s about strategy and implementation, which can be as violent as possible or peaceful as possible, and still be far left.
You can argue that this time we can make communism work guys and abolishing most private property would be considered far left. I don’t think violence is implicit in the extreme left like it is with the far right its just the natural consequences of any authoritarian government regardless of orientation.
The other problem with comparing the two is that even though left and right—by American standards— are SOMEWHAT equally represented the far right is like 30% of the pop and the far left more like 1%. Electing the left caries no risk of the extreme folks running the show they barely have a voice. Electing the right implicitly means letting the extremists run the show they are the majority of the right.
I have been missing the nutty and nonsensical comments from Reddit. I’m so happy Lemmy has grown big enough that we now have our own weird bots to rewrite history for us. #Blessed 🥰
Edit: Oh, wow, getting downvoted by right wing bots; I’m home.
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Fucking what? Far left is “putting people down”?
I know right? Who ever heard of a far left totalitarian state?
Seems You want to be sarcastic with this question. Care to give an example to back up Your argument? I might be wrong, but I think “totalitarian” is the opposite of leftism.
The politicial compass may be flawed, but finds a perfect spot to put totalitarian left regimes.
Hey, who doesn’t love a purge? It’s cathartic.
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Was referring to killing of dissenters. Deleted my post though.
That’s not a far left position, though. That’s about strategy and implementation, which can be as violent as possible or peaceful as possible, and still be far left.
You can argue that this time we can make communism work guys and abolishing most private property would be considered far left. I don’t think violence is implicit in the extreme left like it is with the far right its just the natural consequences of any authoritarian government regardless of orientation.
The other problem with comparing the two is that even though left and right—by American standards— are SOMEWHAT equally represented the far right is like 30% of the pop and the far left more like 1%. Electing the left caries no risk of the extreme folks running the show they barely have a voice. Electing the right implicitly means letting the extremists run the show they are the majority of the right.
I have been missing the nutty and nonsensical comments from Reddit. I’m so happy Lemmy has grown big enough that we now have our own weird bots to rewrite history for us. #Blessed 🥰
Edit: Oh, wow, getting downvoted by right wing bots; I’m home.