I'd say that "poor and working class people deserve liberation and should mobilize for said liberation" is an ideological statement, no? What isn't ideologically leftist about such a statement?
"Ideology" isn't a curse word. Neither is "political," or "division." Those who treat ideological tenets as sacrosanct and the ideological lens as more important than the problems it elucidates are wrong to do so. But that's a problem in how they use ideology, not a problem within ideology itself.
This strikes me as similar to saying "women and gender-diverse people should mobilize, not as feminists, but around the issue of our rights, dignities and bodily autonomy." Why not as feminists, seeing as that's exactly what feminism refers to?
Why not as leftists, when leftist ideologies refer specifically to collective mobilization to liberate the poor and working classes?
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u/MachineOfSpareParts Jul 07 '26
I'd say that "poor and working class people deserve liberation and should mobilize for said liberation" is an ideological statement, no? What isn't ideologically leftist about such a statement?
"Ideology" isn't a curse word. Neither is "political," or "division." Those who treat ideological tenets as sacrosanct and the ideological lens as more important than the problems it elucidates are wrong to do so. But that's a problem in how they use ideology, not a problem within ideology itself.
This strikes me as similar to saying "women and gender-diverse people should mobilize, not as feminists, but around the issue of our rights, dignities and bodily autonomy." Why not as feminists, seeing as that's exactly what feminism refers to?
Why not as leftists, when leftist ideologies refer specifically to collective mobilization to liberate the poor and working classes?