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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.

  • Silverseren@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    So, we’re all agreed then that tankies aren’t leftist, right? Because the claimed “communist” countries, such as Russia and China, are extremely capitalist in the worst possible ways.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. Leftists must not abide the consolidation or entrenchment of power & power (the two are the same).

      Tankies justify this, and are therefore garden variety right wing authoritarians.