Is there such a thing as left-wing authoritarianism
Yes, just go-to .ml or any of the other 2 in the Tankie Triad to see for yourself
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And then realize that if the point of leftist views is to liberate us from right-wing subjugation, and what the authoritarian left wants to do is still subjugate most of us, then maybe they're not our allies at all, actually. They're just fascism wearing a different, more ridiculous, hat
Fascism is inherently right wing. There are no left versions of fascism.
exactly
What if I told you that Stalin actively pursued several fascist policies?
What if I told you those were authoritarian and not fascist inherently and youre simply too dense to understand the nuance here...
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That would meanStalin pursued some right wing policies. Fascism is far right.
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They’re just fascism wearing a different, more ridiculous, hat
Hey, c'mon now, say what you like about MLs, but Soviet hats are cool
Fascism already took a perfectly good mustache from us, don't let it take the fuzzy hats, too!
At least Pringles Man did the heroic job of reclaiming the Stalin stache before it could be ruined forever o7
"Pringles Man" initially had no name, only referred to as "Mr. P". Now, he is called Julius Pringles, after a 2006 Wikipedia hoax, eventually being "made canon" by Kellogg in 2013.
I got banned from .bz for suggesting that DEI and CRT have links to Neo-Marxism, and got called a bigot for it.
If someone doesn’t want to read my posts, they don’t have to, it’s their right not to 🤷♀️
But it is unconscionable and egregious to call someone a bigot because they don’t fit your narrow and extreme ideology. I am literally the exact opposite of a bigot, lol
/rant
So what if DEI has links to Marxists? Marxist sociology isn’t inherently incorrect.
CRT is a law school technique for determining the impact of laws ok populations. Im not sure why that would be Marxist.
Well, Stalin for example very famously stole from the middle class, or kulaks, made their houses into hostels for the very poor, and then put the middle class people to death via gulags.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak
Any system which judges people as others to be exploited and killed isn’t any better than right-wing authoritarianism.
Authoritarianism is fucked up, doesn’t matter if it’s left or right.
Edit, even if you look at China and Vietnam as current examples, they are both hardly exemplary towards LGBT or minority rights. Hardliner Marxists would also say they’re too capitalist.
Edit some connections between CRT and Marxism, both are tools for Neo-Marxists
https://medium.com/@pluralus/is-crt-really-marxist-722c8cfa219
https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/a-closer-look-at-marxist-ideology-and-critical-race-theory/
Ok that doesn’t have anything to do with DEI though. DEI is the idea that hiring a more diverse group of executives and employees will yield more profits. The USSR wouldn’t institute DEI.
While I wholeheartedly agree with unbiased, fair and equal employment access and treatments, DEI has a more global agenda via Neo-Marxist ideology
https://medium.com/@iskandar.talaei/dei-explained-by-james-lindsay-53dd9cd510d2
https://lawliberty.org/the-philosophy-underlying-dei/
There’s nothing wrong with countries helping out other countries! I honestly want more of that. I just sincerely dislike the Neo-Marxist mindset that it’s okay to dismantle someone else’s home country to help out their own.
Edit also, if you consider the U.S. history with regional destabilization of LatAm countries, there are a lot of ghosts here which are coming back to haunt the US. No one has clean hands, historically.
Neither of those sources are good. James Lindsay is a propagandist and has no credibility in social sciences at all. He could not be a valid source much like my niece who is 3 cannot be a good source because neither has any education or experience that would suggest they know what they are talking about.
Your assertion that Marxism has anything to do with DEI seems to be unsupported.
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I got banned from .bz for suggesting that DEI and CRT have links to Neo-Marxism, and got called a bigot for it.
... beg pardon
Tbh it doesn’t matter, at the end of the day I will do what I can for everyone’s civil rights the way any one person can, democratically.
But it is unconscionable and egregious to call someone a bigot
Lol literally all of .ml, "Something even slightly critical of China/Russia/NK" Banned for Rule 1: bigotry
Tankie Triad? I can't even imagine the brain rot you devour on a daily basis.
They are called such as that is where you will most likely run into the kind of fool who will claim Chinese people are freer than most nations on earth when that is a clownish claim IRL.
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Like not licking the boot of any Authoritarian government? Hmm, yes brainrot lol classic tankie comeback
I just wish you weirdos would come up with something smarter than tankie. You right wingers are terrible at roasting leftists. Just be more creative. Tanks are awesome and tankie just sounds like someone that likes tanks. Tanks a lot.
Nah it’s someone who is a class traitor who believes authoritarians who murder in the name of leftism is doing good when IRL these nations aren’t leftist at all eg China which has stock markets.
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"A new study"? Has everyone forgotten about Stalin?
So you consider Stalin to be "left"? How do you define left?
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veneration of hierarchy is an inherently right wing trait.
The Authoritarian left exists in the same was Anarcho Capitalism does.
It fucking doesn't.
If one defines right-wing as pro-hierarchy, thus putting figures like Stalin as right-wing authoritarians, then you can still have left-wing authoritarianism by non-hierarchal enforcement of conformity and injustice. It's a much harder thing to sustain on scale, though.
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I love how you idiots don't even understand that the authority to libertarianism spectrum is the up down Axis and economic structure defines the left right axis.
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His just in:
Fucking duh.
In other news. Water is wet.
Seriously how are people still trying to make the argument that lefties can't be authoritarian? Did everyone just sleep through history class?
This begs the question: What is the left/right divide?
If anti-authoritarianism is a core component of leftism, then "authoritarian leftists" are not actually leftist.
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