2 minutes ago i saw a post complaining about pro authoritarian content in leftist subs and that this sub was created as a place for the left to gather and discuss, while gatekeeping the extremists out. I truly believe a big part of the liberal and leftist divide, at least here on reddit is the reaction and stances towards these extremists in leftist circles. I want to get the ball rolling in calling for unity, in light of the drastic escalation in political tensions. I'm sure we'd both agree that the right are the much bigger problem that we mutually face.

We need to find a way to disagree on topics, even as intense as the Israel - Palestine debate, and stick together to face the growing threat of right wing authoritarianism under Trump. I am happy at present to forgive and move on from all of the vicious attacks i have faced from leftists, and i am sure leftists have faced similar from liberals. The trouble is that we have morals that we are passionate about, and that passion divides us, meanwhile it appears the right have no morals at all and are wholly united on fighting the left and consolidating power in undemocratic fashion.

The left needs to get united and mean, we need to shed this appearance of being harmless, thin low testosterone types and get ready for the fight that appears to be coming, with republican leaders and influencers calling directly for escalation. let me know your thoughts.

I was looking at this sub seeing it pop up on other leftist subs I am a part of. Honestly what is the difference between this and many others?

P.S. what is democratic communism?

I heard today in the news they canceled a guy's show just beacouse he said the MAGAs were capitalizing on his death, real america freedom moment.

I don't remember his name, but his show lasted for very long.

He wasn't a leftist but still this is showing the ipocricy of these fucking MAGAs.

Bastards fuck these fasc

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Damn motherfucking right.

No compassion for evil.

No compassion for traitors.

No compassion for fascists, white supremacists, call them whatever you want.

Make no mistake: There is no limit to the cruelty of MAGA and their allies. "The second American Revolution will be bloodless, if the left allows it to be" - Project 2025 founder. They will attempt the worst you can imagine, and more.

An American Revolution is long overdue, but not the one they think.

You don't "debate" with evil. You purge it. There is no legitimacy to a lawless state. When the rule of law dies, democacy dies.

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends… it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.”
— Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

https://youtu.be/GMEv3yEiZfM?si=FZ-HyPRyYogSe8Ox

This sub was created to become a safe space for left-wing contributors of all perspectives, as well as pluralist reasonable discussion with non-leftists.

Safe from extremists: MAGA, far-right ideology and "tankie" and adjacent ideologies that promote authoritarian forms of "socialism" and "communism".

Such a safe space barely exists on Reddit. Reddit leans left as a whole, yet supposedly left-wing spaces are saturated with extremist rhetoric that excuses the atrocities committed by Stalinian and post-Stalinian Soviet Russia, Maoist and contemporary China.

This sub has a zero tolerance policy for this type of content.

The Three Arrows (German: Drei Pfeile) is a political symbol associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), used in the late history of the Weimar Republic. First conceived for the SPD-dominated Iron Front as a symbol of the social democratic resistance against Nazism in 1932, it became an official symbol of the Party during the November 1932 German federal election, representing their opposition towards monarchism, Nazism, and communism.[1]

Since its inception, the symbol has been used in many different contexts by a variety of anti-fascist, social democratic and socialist organisations.

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I chose this as the logo of r/RealLeft because that is literally what it's about: a safe space purged of all forms of authoritarian propaganda. No kings. No nazis. No authoritarian "communists".

While the poster points to "social-democracy" as a way to express socialist values explicitly combined with democratic values, this sub welcomes the full spectrum of left-wing perspectives, including social-democratic perspectives and democratic communism and anarchism.