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Post by pErvinalia » Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:13 am

Fascism is the corporate state. Corporatism is a thing of the right.
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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:31 am

You can't defeat fascism by building a wall around your farmstead and shooting at anyone who gets too close for comfort. What stands between the citizen and fascism is community, not individualism.
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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by JimC » Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:36 am

pErvin wrote:Fascism is the corporate state. Corporatism is a thing of the right.
It's a bit more than that, although it certainly used the inherent power and influence of big capital in true 30's fascism. But it also uses intense nationalistic fervour (frequently including racist ideology) to generate popular support, and disdains the rule of law, instead preferring to use state-sanctioned thugs to violently apply power and coercion.
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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:57 am

Seth wrote:
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Seth wrote:
Brian Peacock wrote:They're hiding their faces, so they must be leftist scumbags.
Actually, the KKK is the child of Democrats, so yes, they are leftist scumbags.
:funny: Only a clown with a completely distorted view of the history of the US would imply that the Democratic party of the United States always and everywhere equaled "leftist." Pathetic
Only a clown with a completely distorted view of reality would think that I said anything of the kind.

That being said, Democrats have been leftist scumbags since Marxism was invented, which means just after the Civil War.
Magical political osmosis instantly transformed highly conservative Southern Democrats into leftist scumbags when Marx started publishing in Europe? You live in a fantasy world.

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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by Forty Two » Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:01 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:No, you've got that wrong Jim. Authoritarianism is leftist by definition. Admittedly it's not my definition, or any considered definition of a student of political theory, but that doesn't stop it being defined as such - no sirree.

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There is an authoritarian left. Progressives tend to to be slightly over to the authoritarian side of the left. Communists are hard left and hard authoritarian. That kind of thing.

Here is one illustration - top left quadrant is authoritarian left:
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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by Svartalf » Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:32 pm

given how totalitariansim is shown as a lefty tendency, after having been implemented by thoth the fascists and the Nazis, I'm not sure how reliable this graph is.
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Post by pErvinalia » Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:39 pm

Anarchism is a left ideology. And ideological communism is stateless and therefore non-authoritarian. That graph is nonsense.
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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by Forty Two » Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:41 pm

Svartalf wrote:given how totalitariansim is shown as a lefty tendency, after having been implemented by thoth the fascists and the Nazis, I'm not sure how reliable this graph is.
Either that or you really don't understand leftist ideologies, and you are under the common mistaken impression that communism is just a really nice and altruistic version of social democracy.
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Post by Forty Two » Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:44 pm

There are different types of anarchism, like anarcho-communism vs. anarcho-capitalism.

Anarchocommunism is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wage labour, and private property, so it's leftist. On the other hand anarcho-capitalism is an individualist anarchist political philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state in favor of individual sovereignty in a free, capitalist market involving private property, wage labour, etc. So, they are different ends of the spectrum, both involving anarchism.
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Post by pErvinalia » Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:56 pm

Anarchism as a political ideology was developed after a schism within Marxism/socialism. It's absolutely a left ideology. Anarcho-capitalism is American right-libertarianism.
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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by Svartalf » Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:01 pm

Forty Two wrote:
Svartalf wrote:given how totalitariansim is shown as a lefty tendency, after having been implemented by thoth the fascists and the Nazis, I'm not sure how reliable this graph is.
Either that or you really don't understand leftist ideologies, and you are under the common mistaken impression that communism is just a really nice and altruistic version of social democracy.
totalitarianism is not an ideology, it's a feature of both far right and far left authoritarian regimes.
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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by Forty Two » Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:06 pm

Libertarianism is based on 16th century French and 17th century British thinkers, and predates the existence of the US. See La Boetie, Locke, etc. Libertarians are not anarchists, as libertarians acknowledge a legitimate role for elected government. You, as usual, have no idea what you're talking about.
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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by Hermit » Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:07 pm

Forty Two wrote:
Svartalf wrote:given how totalitariansim is shown as a lefty tendency, after having been implemented by thoth the fascists and the Nazis, I'm not sure how reliable this graph is.
Either that or you really don't understand leftist ideologies, and you are under the common mistaken impression that communism is just a really nice and altruistic version of social democracy.
You mean fascist and fundamentalist regimes are intrinsically less totalitarian than communist regimes?
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Re: Leftist Riot Du Jour - UC Berkeley

Post by pErvinalia » Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:07 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Forty Two wrote:
Svartalf wrote:given how totalitariansim is shown as a lefty tendency, after having been implemented by thoth the fascists and the Nazis, I'm not sure how reliable this graph is.
Either that or you really don't understand leftist ideologies, and you are under the common mistaken impression that communism is just a really nice and altruistic version of social democracy.
totalitarianism is not an ideology, it's a feature of both far right and far left authoritarian regimes.
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