• @Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world
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    554 months ago

    Meeting everyone’s basic needs isn’t even far left. This is how far the Overton window has shifted to the right. Meeting everyone’s basic needs is left-of-centre. Far left would be state owned and controlled everything, redistribution of wealth via any means necessary, all public services fully state funded and free for all at the point of use.

    • @jenesaisquoi@feddit.org
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      154 months ago

      It’s from the USA perspective. People not dying of easily preventable diseases, or children not going hungry, are extreme left for them.

      • @Zink@programming.dev
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        84 months ago

        Many of us would disagree with that, but in aggregate we’ve just elected “burn this motherfucker down with us inside” instead of the alternative who was still way too far to the right for most of us here on Lemmy, so you are unfortunately correct.

        If you proposed children not going hungry to some of my conservative relatives, even in a room of mixed company they would say out loud something like “why should I have to pay to feed the kids they can’t afford because they can’t close their legs or put down the crack pipe long enough to get a job?” (Racist dog whistle very much intentional)

    • @all4theTomatoes@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Noam Chomsky is Far-Left, and he advocated for a stateless society. But yeah the idea of liberty has definitely changed in America The U.S.

      • @Overshoot2648@lemm.ee
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        24 months ago

        It’s because Marxists/Communists and Capitalists like to pretend Anarchism isn’t half of socialism because it hurts their arguments.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      24 months ago

      Meeting everyone’s basic needs isn’t even far left.

      When saying “Please stop bombing Palestinian children” is the most ultra-Tankie Iranian Revolutionary Guard propaganda printed in modern history, it does appear that public amenities are outside even the farthest fringes of left-wing ideology.

      Far left would be state owned and controlled everything

      I remember Elon Musk calling himself a socialist. And now that I’m looking at how he and Trump are running the country, I guess this does fit the above definition of Far-Left.

    • @Overshoot2648@lemm.ee
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      24 months ago

      No, that’s authoritarian left as pure left is communal ownership. Market left would fit better and would use worker and consumer cooperatives and market syndicates rather than state ownership. I hate how Marxists convinced everyone they were the only form of socialism despite people like Pierre-Joseph Proudhon coming before him.