The shape of a 21st century I don’t want to see

Re:The shape of a 21st century I don’t want to see by icebraining on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @08:29AM (#17125409)

Talking about "the left" as a group never works as an argument for someone on the Left, because there's no "the left". Denying that other groups are really left-wing is the favorite past-time of the Left.

(I say this as a sympathizer and voter of left-wing movements and parties.)

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Re:The shape of a 21st century I don’t want to see by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @08:47AM (#17125497)

You could make the case that the murderous racist militarist ethnonationalism is compatible with some perverse extremes of the Left (and Right, tbf), but less so with the whole "the merger of state and corporate power" thing.

"First they came for the Socialists, Then they came for the Trade Unionists" sounds to me more like eliminating the left. When in that sequence did they come for the factory owners? Oh right, they didn't. Unless the owner was Jewish.

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Re:The shape of a 21st century I don’t want to see by icebraining on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:01AM (#17125561)

I wasn't talking about the Nazis at all, I think your post covers that very well, I was making a more general point.

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