Left Wing Discussion Thread IV: Oh Hai Marx

[Bakery Hill]

It's not a choice between gold plated roads and mass starvation.

That sounds more like a traffic hazard than prosperity.

Prosperity is a social traffic hazard.

[Albrenia]

That sounds more like a traffic hazard than prosperity.

Prosperity is a social traffic hazard.

That's... actually kind of deep.

[Bakery Hill]

is it shitposting or is it philosophy?

:thinking:

[Albrenia]

is it shitposting or is it philosophy?

:thinking:

Some sort of fusion, no doubt.

[Bakery Hill]

Also I'm a pro-life macron fanboy.
Come at me haters.

There's no hate here, only pity and a vague embarrassment.

[MERIZoC]

I'm an anti-Third International FRSO fanboy.
Come at me haters.

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

I despise prosperity.

I initially wrote this off as a meme, but then you defended it. Why? Why do you despise prosperity?

[Albrenia]

I took a Isidewith test and apparently I side most with Hillary clinton.
Idk if upset or proud.

Well, there's no result from that test which could be counted as 'good'.

At least you're not Trump.

[Albrenia]

Well, there's no result from that test which could be counted as 'good'.

At least you're not Trump.

I hated clinton tho.
I was a bernie fan through and through despite major differences, I'm also apparently 64% democrat. I also really like Kasich.
And are you saying no good result because all the candidates were crap?
That'd make sense.

Yup. If someone put a gun to my head and make me choose I'd say Bernie, but he has many flaws of his own.

[Reikoku]

All we're doing is trying to save children man.

By harassing vulnerable women and attempting to defund one of the most cost affordable places where they can receive important health services, such as pap smears and STD checks.

I don't want to engage in a pro-life debate, but my point is the slander needs to stop.

Then why does the Pro-Life constantly push slander such as “Planned Parenthood is selling dead baby parts for profit?”

[Bakery Hill]

I despise prosperity.

I initially wrote this off as a meme, but then you defended it. Why? Why do you despise prosperity?

Combat decadence.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Obviously not, if we were aware of your irritation.

Well, I don't take pleasure in my political enemies. However, it was not my intention to offend anyone.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

My economic views are not leftist, centrist, or right wing, instead purely pragmatic and driven by what I see as necessary and needed, and based on context.

That sounds like what is commonly called Realpolitik .

[Democratic Communist Federation]

By the way, am I the only one seeing the increased radicalization of the left and right?
It's worrying.

I want to see more radicalization on the Left.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

I'm an anti-Third International FRSO fanboy.
Come at me haters.

Which FRSO? There are two of them: the Maoists and the Left Refoundationists.

[Bakery Hill]

freedom road
take me home
to the place
where I belong
california
vegan gulag
take me home
freedom road

[Dumb Ideologies]

By the way, am I the only one seeing the increased radicalization of the left and right?
It's worrying.

I want to see more radicalization on the Left.

More surfer types, beach party rallies, and - hopefully - plenty of food for Mr Sharkie. A good program.

[Thermodolia]

freedom road
take me home
to the place
where I belong
california
vegan gulag
take me home
freedom road

So goddamn horrible 10/10

[Thermodolia]

I'm a transpartisan.
not a centrist.

so am I in the wrong thread?

Aren’t you just a special little snowflake

[Albrenia]

I want to see more radicalization on the Left.

More surfer types, beach party rallies, and - hopefully - plenty of food for Mr Sharkie. A good program.

Totally radical, dude. We'll teach the Gromits how to Hang Ten maaaan.

[Zakuvia]

Sadly, thanks to the shift in the Overton Window, as a moderate, my views are damn-near authoritarian by most modern-left standards, even though I still manage to infuriate both my extreme-left/right groups. It's sort of nice being hated by everybody. Let's me know I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid of either flavor.

[The Parkus Empire]

They do very much in radicalism, which considers "general will" to be above the law. The Declaration can be read in different ways, but radicals (including its author) certainly understood it to mean this.

Radicalism, at least the kind which descends from Rousseau (if I'm interpreting your reference to "general will" correctly) considers the general will to be the (only) legitimate basis of law, not something above the law.

And by extension, above the law, as law becomes invalid whenever general will doesn't concur with it, even if general will made it, as liberalism subscribes to "philosophical presentism".

In the French Revolution, it was held above the law. This doctrine was eventually an important basis of fascism, where it was believed a dictator could embody the national will and liberate it from the rule of law.

Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
....
Let an impure blood
Soak our fields!

-La Marseilles

[The Parkus Empire]

By the way, am I the only one seeing the increased radicalization of the left and right?
It's worrying.

Not really, since "radical" in the sense you are using it just means "more that moderate dissent from the status quo".

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

By the way, am I the only one seeing the increased radicalization of the left and right?
It's worrying.

Not really, since "radical" in the sense you are using it just means "more that moderate dissent from the status quo".

The status quo is better than the "radicals."

[Firaxin]

I'm not the only one turned off by the constant derogatory statements about the rich, right? They are people too, even if some of them are consumed by Greed. We shouldn't attack them, we should make them recognize what they are doing is wrong. If they refuse then we force them to comply by law, for their own good.