I don't care if it's a "moderate", a "rational" or whatever prefixes do you have for these leftists who says they don't support the Marxist shenanigans in academia or the occurring Cultural Revolution happening all over the West over the past decade, they are lying. And you believing their lies that they're against it while not doing anything to oppose it only enables these primordial evil that's going on in the world today.
In short: "Don't believe their lies." Lying is as innate to them as they live.
I've recently come around to this view as well. I identified as a moderate (as in actually moderate, not just non-AOC wing) Democrat for a long time. I turned against them when it became clear that a) the "moderates" are just as happy to raise my taxes and take my guns as Alexandria Donkeyface, and b) they're not the naked emperor, but they are telling me not to believe my lying eyes when I point out that the emperor has no clothes.
Even after Gamergate I was in that "moderate" kind of position for a long time. I thought that maybe if the other side can't be convinced then at least the onlookers mostly could be. Instead, they will just blindly follow whoever is in power.
“Conservatives” lie too. They lie when they say the elections were fair and there is no reason to audit the results. They lie when they say “Wear your masks. It is for the good of all. Trust the Government and MSM. Get your vaccination” I am tired of these liars too.
I have family members in this category. They say they are conservative and appear to vote mostly conservative, but they drink the globalist koolaid.
I can't think of a single Conservative who identifies as a "Centrist". Hold on, Dave Rubin. That's about it.
I can't count the number of times I've met a Liberal who called themselves "Centrist". It's gotten to the point when they tell me they're centrists I just don't believe them.
if they are sincere they have not left anymore. Welcome to the alt-right pals.
Thanks to the social media, I know who they are, most importantly, how they lie.
Sure I can respect an admitted Marxist more than the typical identitarian leftist, default Democrat, or social liberal, but I ultimately wouldn't trust them or believe that it's possible to live in harmony with them. (unless they no influence or power at all)
Exactly. It's an ideology that is practiced at everyone else's expense.
Just consider the sheer number of attrocities, the extent of the societal decay that Marx and the likes of the Frankfurt School have wrought. That is the price of tolerating such idealogies. Treat it like the cancer it is.
By Marxist definition, no. In the traditional sense, a set of theories or philosophies held by a group or individual, often not epistemic, which informs a world view - very much an ideology.
No shit. A critique of capitalism requires capitalism. What absolution does that provide though?
Lets not ignore that globalism is actively being pushed by the left in hope of accelerated modernization. Arguably the easiest defense against that dispossession, nationalism, has by and large been a target of the left, including Marxists and neo-Marxists, since the French republicans. Progressivism was invariably influenced, and changed for the worse, by the Frankfurt school - refitting Marxian critiques towards culture as a whole. Developing Marx's rejection of logical positivism into an all out crusade by conflating it with inevitable fascism - a crusade which has negatively effected society and academia as a whole. The insistence on change instead of simple observational critique, coupled with the normalization, even romanticization of revolutionary action. How are these the sole responsibility of liberalism? Bastardized as it is, if current neoliberalism is the fault of liberalism, Marxism is at least as wanting for what it devolved into.
Contemporary social justice, as nonsensical and illogical as it is, has been weaponized towards the destruction of western culture. I survives and thrives on that rejection. Do you honestly believe all half of this bullshit would exist as it does now without critical theory, conflict theory, and where the rejection of objectivity is the norm in education and many fields of academia?
Presumptuous. I regard capitalism with no dogma, and I have more than a few bones to pick with liberalism - from classical to neoliberal. Capitalism was an improvement on feudalism. If it is to be supplanted, I simply ask for a superior alternative. Hailing from a very violent part of the world which romanticizes Marxism, and has been flirting with the worst elements of socialism for the past two decades, with a laundry list of historical failures in hand - failures that led to mass loss of life and further exploitation, I cannot in good conscience endorse or even tolerate the proposal of Marxism as a replacement. It is inflammatory, revolutionary, and fails in implementation.
While I appreciate your stance, not everyone is so reasonable as stop at the instructional value of an ideology.
A legitimately interesting read. Thanks for taking the time.
While I agree with your criticisms of liberalism by and large, I question your optimism in regards to Marxism. Overlooking economic and socio-political viability, how exactly is it exempt from the same subversion? From your responses, you seemingly limit your definition of Marxism largely to Marx's work, regarding neo/cultural Marxism as more radical liberalism. If this is the case, given the means by which "Marxism" is being proliferated and the views commonly held by self-identified Marxists, wouldn't the revolution actually be staged by a majority liberal component?
Nick Land is a better marxist than this dumb cunt. He's a sinophile too. The Dark Enlightenment is his best known work, although you should start with IQ Shredder.
Regarding Terese: I can't take anyone who spends that much time on twitter seriously. It would be like taking shoeonhead (another Marxist) seriously.
Wow, that whiteknighting for June went from 0 to 100 really quick, huh?
You might as well get on your knees and kick that taint of hers, buddy.
What ever shoe is, imagine taking her seriously. Also: A terminally online twitter user uses twitter to attract other terminally online twitter users. I imagine the discourse on her show is amazing.
And the right destroys everything in the name of their prejudices and jesus. Everything can be justified in the name of traditional jesus, even denying the teachings of traditional jesus. We can play this bullshit game all day.
Quit calling the communists the left. They are the authoritarian left, if you want to be the most general, but even that is too damn broad. Tarring us all with the same brush as those fucking antifa commie cunts won't get you far.
And that's why you are as bad as the antifa commie cunts. You don't want to be associated with them yet you're not doing ANYTHING to stop them. Well, good job on not refuting the point. Have anyone of the left pushed back towards this so-called "authoritarian left"? No? Exactly. You know that you're in the same boat as them. At least those who were executed by the Red Guards during the Great Leap Forward had the balls to say that they support Chiang Kai-shek and opposed Marxism until their last breaths.
I mean, they're here shitposting and claiming to be left. So, yes? It may not be a big demographic but lefties willing to tell Marxists to fuck off is a real one.
The biggest problem is lefties who claim to be against the Cultural Revolution style bullshit is that many of them have a history of being fickle and easily distracted. The Chris Rayguns of the world, who let the veil get lowered back down on them by their friends and start believing there's a boogieman in the closet again, and suddenly they need to stop calling out the black-clad street killers so they can all band together and stop the boogieman.
That's a mighty fine strawman you got there. Full of assumptions and lies, built by an idiot. Mighty fine.
Part of the issue is that left-wing rhetoric doesn't have much in the way of counters to communist ideology. If you're on the left, you're implicitly accepting that communism is the way to go, somehow and some time. Communists end up just having to debate that now is the time for a bunch of premises that the rhetoric is already set up for - it's why lefties in general fold like house of cards in the face of communist proselytism.
Oh, I must have missed that part when being a liberal meant we just automatically got on the train car and waited patiently to be starved to death in a gulag. This open mind of mine, tends to let things like this slip out.
Left-wing ideals completely oppose communism. We cherish the freedom of the individual, of experiencing new things, of just living and letting live. Liberalism is a willingness to be open to debate, not automatic acceptance. Preaches tolerance, not embracing an idea simply because it is different.
Communism is not about any of these things. It is the complete destruction of the system and the removal of all freedoms under the will of the collective authoritarianism. No changes, nothing new, only enforcement. There is no tolerance of anything under communism, only obedience. Obedience is a conservative principle.
Tolerating Communists is a catastrophic blunder. You don't tolerate a wound, you cauterize it.
trololololol
You mean NONE of the major public platforms are liberal because they blanket ban people for using specific naughty words?
You are just using the retarded "not true liberalism" argument just like commies use the "not true communism".
The left really loves the "no true Scotsman" when it's going to benefit them.
They also love to cry Strawman when you paint a negative depiction of them, but then paint this Utopian Strawman of themselves on the other side of their mouths.
Liberal and left-wing are distinct. If you support left-wing politics, you're already at the train station, likely soon to board that train.
The reality is liberal and left-wing are much abused terms. A sizeable portion of the Democrat constituency would be better described as progressives, or even radical progressives based on the policy they vote for. You can't unironically support equality of outcome, critical race theory and substantial government overreach while calling yourself a liberal.
Unfortunately, liberalism seems to have been yet another slippery slope. Whether inherently flawed or just vulnerable to subversion, it is in part how we arrived at this juncture.
I'm not sure why you assume liberals are on the left. Communists and their friends like to say they are, when their other friends aren't saying "Liberals get the bullet too", but I'm not sure why I should trust a communist's view on anything.
If you're willing to work with the hypothesis that liberalism isn't left-wing, can you see why I'd make the points I'd made?
If by left-wing you mean overton window, then yes, I can accept it. It disgusts me with every fiber of my being to believe that the MSM, Democrats, Academia, and the filthy degenerates of the progressive wing have stripped the meaning and understanding of political leanings in this country. I don't believe marriage is the answer to every question regarding a family, but somehow I am considered right-wing via the overton window.
Opening with an obvious lie just proves OP correct. The right are the only people who build anything.
All leftism is authoritarian and inherently tyrannical. The left is the left is the left.
Stop voting in lockstep with them then.
Is what I would have said five years ago. Now, you had your chance. Now your fate is the rope, same as theirs.
You mistake us, leftist scum. We don't want to "get" anywhere with you. As far as we're concerned, you aren't part of society. You're a parasite. You don't belong. And you will be removed.
That's so wrong I don't even... this isn't 2003 anymore. The right is basically everyone who doesn't like you at this point. From your edgy kid cousin to the guy who runs the deli across the street. Jesus hasn't been politically relevant in something like 20 years, get with the times.
No, we really couldn't. How many right wing mass shooters are there out there again? Maybe you'd like the domestic terrorist count.
On the contrary, it's proven ruthlessly effective at spotting someone who hasn't kept up with the religious vote in the past 20 fucking years from the crowd. Do you think your average antifa commie cunt is more or less nuanced than yourself? And I am referring to the Royal "You" here. I don't care how individualistic you think you are, every action you've done screams the exact opposite.
Yes, for a long time, the Democratic platform aligned with what they wanted. Now, it doesn't, but they've got too comfortable with things. They just vote Democrat just assuming they agree on things.
They always lie, and they always project.
And rule #2 should be: Never apologize.