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Capitalists would like you to believe that liberalism is the left-most edge of the economic spectrum, precisely because it is the left-most point on the spectrum that doesn’t threaten their power.
True leftism threatens the power of capitalists. Liberalism is not leftism.

    • buttermilk@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Indeed! So if liberalism as an ideology, wants to keep billionaires, don’t you think it’s a little counter to that logic to say liberals and leftists need to come together and not dismantle the primary driver of fascism?

        • buttermilk@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          I guess I just don’t see much value in opposing billionaires when liberals want to leave in place the fundamental tool they use to perpetuate their control.

            • buttermilk@kbin.social
              4·
              1 year ago

              Private wealth that enriches an ownership class to a much greater degree than obtainable through working.

                • buttermilk@kbin.social
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  I am here in good faith too, I just don’t think I share your belief that capitalism can be brought to heel when it has almost unfettered power and every incentive in it is towards the sort of system we have now. And that transferring that weight to an entire populous of ethical consumers just doesn’t bare fruit.