• Eccitaze@yiffit.net
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    3 months ago

    This shit right here is why I hate to argue about labels or whether someone is/isn’t liberal/leftist/centrist/conservative/whatever. At best, they’re an extremely vague, ill-defined, hyper-individualized label that means different things to different people. One person says “I’m a leftist,” and they mean it as “I’m a progressive Democrat who supports heavily regulated capitalism, labor unions, LGBT rights, and am pro-choice.” Another person says “I’m a leftist,” and they mean it as “I’m an anarcho-communist who believes billionaires should forcibly redistribute their wealth, and I don’t give a rat’s ass about LGBT or minority rights because they’re a bourgeoisie distraction from class consciousness.”

    I don’t care about your label, I care about your policies. Those actually tell me something about you.

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      3 months ago

      An anarcho-communist who thinks gender identity is a bourgeoisie distraction, is actually a Soviet flavored fascist.

      Not an anarcho-communist.