You’re preoccupied with this French revolutionary definition of leftism as the ultimate sieve for what makes a leftist and I’m trying to make a point that today’s leftism is a movement that isn’t capable of self-criticism because it’s become a religious movement as opposed to a political one. Things change, we don’t live in revolutionary France.
I feel like we’re talking past each other here… I wish the vulkan mind meld was a real thing so we can actually get somewhere with this.
You’re preoccupied with this French revolutionary definition of leftism as the ultimate sieve for what makes a leftist
Yes, because that was before the likes of Stalin and Mao tried to appropriate the term “leftism” for their own selfish purposes.
I’m trying to make a point that today’s leftism is a movement that isn’t capable of self-criticism because it’s become a religious movement as opposed to a political one.
I’m trying to make a point that those are fake leftists.
The disagreement, as I understand it, is this: when a person wearing a label of virtue acts contrary to that label, you believe that corrupts the label, whereas I believe that makes the person unworthy of the label and refuse to recognize the person as having the label.
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You’re preoccupied with this French revolutionary definition of leftism as the ultimate sieve for what makes a leftist and I’m trying to make a point that today’s leftism is a movement that isn’t capable of self-criticism because it’s become a religious movement as opposed to a political one. Things change, we don’t live in revolutionary France.
I feel like we’re talking past each other here… I wish the vulkan mind meld was a real thing so we can actually get somewhere with this.
Yes, because that was before the likes of Stalin and Mao tried to appropriate the term “leftism” for their own selfish purposes.
I’m trying to make a point that those are fake leftists.
The disagreement, as I understand it, is this: when a person wearing a label of virtue acts contrary to that label, you believe that corrupts the label, whereas I believe that makes the person unworthy of the label and refuse to recognize the person as having the label.