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Does one have to be an iconoclast or revolutionary these days to be validly left? I consider myself to be left of center, and very much in favor of progressive policies. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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However I find myself being disagreed with quite often, mostly for not advocating or cheering violence, "by any means possible" change, or revolutionary tactics. It would seem that I'm not viewed as authentically holding my view unless I advocate extreme, violent, or radical action to accomplish it.

Those seem like two different things to me.

Edit: TO COMMUNISTS, ANARCHISTS, OR ANYONE ELSE CALLING FOR THE OVERTHROW OF SOCIETY

THIS OBVIOUSLY ISN'T MEANT FOR YOU.

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[+] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Yep, I have no interest at all in living under a communist dictatorship. If see you've seen another kind of communism, please let me know what it is. I'd love to be informed about it.

Maybe a lot more violence needs to take place before it works right.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 28 points 4 months ago

Yep, I have no interest at all in living under a communist dictatorship. If see you've seen another kind of communism, please let me know what it is. I'd love to be informed about it.

PRC, Cuba, USSR, Vietnam, etc. are good examples of societies that were organized along Communist lines, and came with drastic reductions in Poverty and drastic increases in life expectancy and freedom as opposed to previous conditions.

Maybe a lot more violence needs to take place before it works right.

What do you mean?

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 4 months ago

Yeah yeah, continue to spout your anti-communist propaganda. You already live in a dictatorship, you're just to propagandized to realize it.

The only dictatorship we want is that of the proletariat, as opposed to the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. That is, a true popular democracy.

Maybe listen to what other people have to say and go read communist theory before saying anything you don't know about.

As it stands your position is not left in any stretch of the imagination.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

I'd love to be informed about it.

that is a blatant lie. this entire thread is a monument to your willful ignorance.