• @[email protected]
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    24 months ago

    Ok, so if we agree to define Leftist strictly as anti-capitalist, then fine. I was using it to mean more “left-of-centre”.

    • @masquenox
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      04 months ago

      If you are pro-capitalist you are a right-winger - no ifs, ands or buts. Not “centrist” or “left-of-center.”

      There is no debate to be had here.

        • @masquenox
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          04 months ago

          There is no centre - there never was. Not in a “left-vs-right” conception, anyway - there is no such thing as “half-a-socialist” or “half-a-capitalist.” You’re either for it or you’re not.

          There is a way of visualizing a “centre,” though… if you imagine the status quo as a “centre” (which also signifies institutionalized political, economic and social power) and draw a circle around it, everything inside that circle will be right-wing - everything outside it will be left-wing. This would actually be somewhat more accurate than the silly “political compass” infographics which does more miseducating than anything else.