And what is your approach towards a phenomenon of private property? It's deciding IMHO.
For example:
1. It's saint and natural right - right-wing.
2. It should be abolished. - left-wing.
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Questions:
Am I still a leftist if...
I enjoy pop culture?
Am a pacifist?
Sometimes find myself shopping at stores?
Believe people should have religious freedom as long as it doesn't get out of hand?
Now here are my major concerns, what kind of leftist am I?
Feminist and Queer Issues
Women's Rights
Pacifism
Anti Death Penalty
Freedom of speech
"Letting People Do What They want As Log as They're Not Too Rich or hurting anybody"
Oppurtunity for Homeschooling and Higher Education
Cultural Acetance and Expression
Not letting the Government Have too Much power
Anti Police Brutality
Democracy of Some Sorts but Not Where it is two Wolves In a Lamb Votibg On What's for Dinner
And what is your approach towards a phenomenon of private property? It's deciding IMHO.
For example:
1. It's saint and natural right - right-wing.
2. It should be abolished. - left-wing.
"Property is theft."
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"the system of wage labor is a system of slavery"
Karl Heinrich Marx
No. The only "pop culture" you can enjoy is sitting in a dimly lit room with a copy of Capital and listening to The Internationale in a continuous loop.
No. Whenever you're told to kill a capitalist pig, you're expected to kill a capitalist pig -- preferably in a style similar to that seen in the Saw movies.
No, leftists do not shop at stores. We make our clothes by hand and eat wild grasses. If you're lucky, you might be given a chicken to kill, defeather and butcher yourself.
Atheism is the god-rule of all.
fka rednoise
Yes, of course.
Sure.
Of course.
Yes
I think that these views can be attributed to virtually anyone who doesn't have explicitly right-wing views. Anarchists and communists and social-democrats and centrist-liberals can all find some amount of common ground on these.
What separates Communists and Anarchists from the "liberal left", though, is our end goal. Communists and anarchists want to see an end to capitalism -- we want the means of production (factories, farms, workshops) to be controlled by the working class, as opposed to the capitalist class which controls them now, and an end to the wage system. Our ultimate goal is a global society without a state, without classes, without money.
Liberals and social-democrats, on the other hand, want to see a more regulated form of capitalism with some sort of welfare state, which we see as something that is impossible to maintain, and something which is undesirable due to the tendency of the Capitalist system to fall into crisis, which often leads to catastrophic ecological and human consequences.
I'm on some sickle-hammer shit
Collective Bruce Banner shit
FKA: #FF0000, AKA Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
Yes. Leftism, assuming you mean revolutionary socialism of some kind, is not a lifestyle movement. In any case much of the whining about "pop culture" comes from conservatives.
Are you still a leftist? Probably. Are you a consistent leftist? No, I don't think so. I mean, pacifism is pretty much incompatible with revolution as the overthrow of the bourgeois state, and it often leads to people forming the peace police.Originally Posted by uncontent_soul
Sometimes? I think most leftists find themselves shopping in stores all the time - again, socialism is not some kind of lifestyle movement. Socialists oppose private ownership of the means of distribution and the market, but we don't think refusing to shop will accomplish anything - except help us lose weight perhaps. And make our apartments extremely filthy.Originally Posted by uncontent_soul
Yes, but you haven't really said anything. You want people to have religious freedom except in some circumstances where you think they shouldn't have religious freedom. That is pretty much how everyone views the issue - very few bourgeois freedoms are absolute. But the question is where you wish to draw the line.Originally Posted by uncontent_soul
A vague one. As people have pointed out, the chief issue is your attitude toward private ownership of the means of production, and also wage labour, commodity production, markets, the state etc. Socialists are opposed to all of them. I'm not sure many of us are "for" homeschooling, and we're not just anti-police brutality, but anti-police.Originally Posted by uncontented_soul
Without more information and putting all that into context you could be a leftist, or more likely on just this alone, a liberal or right-"Libertarian". I don't mean that as a slur. Even right-"Libertarians" in the US sense could claim to have those positions.
-Feminist and Queer issues could be not having state intervention to help women and LGBTQ because not letting the "free market" work it's magic makes straight cis-males jealous. They need to prove themselves to the "free market", otherwise state intervention to help them discriminates against straight cis-males.
-Pacisfism means they don't like there tax-dollar being spent by the government.
-Free speech is the rich spreading hate speech.
-Abolish death penalty because evil government powers.
-Letting people do whatever means letting the workers have the choice to work in deathtraps for $2/hour.
-Opportunities for homeschooling and higher education is abolishing public education and have Christian fundamentalist brainwash their children at home.
-Cultural Acceptance and Expression is for the individual to decide, and accepting reactionaries.
-Not letting the government have too much power=give whoever has the money the same powers. Privatization of public services.
-Anti-police brutality is replace cops with private guards.
-Democracy of Some Sorts but Not "Where it is two Wolves In a Lamb vote On What's for Dinner" means limiting democracy so the unwashed masses can't vote on anything that violates capitalists' "property rights". Anarchism and Communism is "tyranny of the majority" in their view.
Without putting what it is into context, this could just be liberalism.
You can live in Capitalism but you must be respectful until the revolution. You can shop, be "cool", be a pacifist (Anarcho-Pacifism is a thing), and let people be religious (socialism). Most modern leftist believe in gay rights (like Leninism but unlike Stalinism and Castroism), most are Feminists (Castro and Engels) be anti death penalty (again Anarcho Pacifism) like Freedom of Speech (Socialism, Anarchism, Marxism) let people do what they want (Communism, Anarchism) alternative education (Youth Rights) express culture (Guevaraism) small government (Left Libertarianism) not like police brutality (Anarcho Pacifism again!) and limited democracy (sounds like Leninism to me). As long as you want more equality in the world you are technically considered left wing.
Hipster hipster on the wall, who is the hippiest of them all?
Anarcho-pacifism also opposes fighting back against brutal cops. It isn't anarchism at all.
"I'm not interested in indulging whims from members of your faction."
Seeing as this is seen as acceptable by an admin, from here on out when I have a disagreement with someone I will be asking them to reference this. If you want an explanation of my views, too bad.
