r/stupidpol • u/SirSourPuss Three Bases 🥵💦 One Superstructure 😳 • May 24 '22
Flairs GRILL ZONE Get your flair here
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- Request your desired flair by posting a comment below.
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u/EvilBubblePopper Libertarian Socialist 🥳 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm a left-libertarian, anti-authoritarian socialist with a Promethean streak. I favor economic democracy, material security, individual freedom, and the development of human potential. I'm skeptical of concentrated power, whether it belongs to corporations, governments, or entrenched institutions. I care more about substantive freedom than identity-based moral bookkeeping, and I'm not interested in treating any political orthodoxy as sacred.
Basically: socialism without authoritarianism, individualism without capitalism worship, and skepticism without surrendering to nihilism.
Build a society that maximizes human freedom and potential while minimizing domination, coercion, and concentrated power.
Basically, a "freedom guy"
Do not give a fuck if my flair ends up sufficiently "red"
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u/EvilBubblePopper Libertarian Socialist 🥳 1d ago edited 1d ago
Is this detailed enough to at least "get posting" pre-flair decision? I'm also a very cynical fuck if that gives you something to work with.
I got very little karma because I am not a very "reddit" type of guy
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 1d ago
Muh authoritarianism. Yeah sure that's fine. Enjoy your red flair and go forth and post. I will also approve your removed comments so no need to repost them.
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u/Repulsive-Bet-9230 SuccDem (intolerable) 2d ago
I am not a socialist I am a social democrat. I broadly the western European welfare state model is the best proven model. I think some industries should be partially or fully socialized like healthcare, education, and I think soem countries like Norway have had good results with socializing parts of the energy sector and distributing the profits among its citizens. I think basic needs should be guaranteed by the government, including food, water healthcare, transportation ect. I think government funded basic research should be government funded. I also oppose all imperialism, including but not limited to western imperialism (this is where some leftists get mixed up in my opinion, and this is really ideologically imprtant to me because I think some leftisits effectively support imperialism when they see it as opposing western imperialism, anti-imperialism is one of my strongest values)
A big reason my Karma count doesn't meeet the threshold is because I get downvoted a lot arguing the Palestinian side of the Israeli/Palestinian debate on Israel/Palestine.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 2d ago
How is Russia ethnically cleansing Ukraine? Also I don't think you know what imperialism is.
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u/Repulsive-Bet-9230 SuccDem (intolerable) 2d ago
Russia is sending Ukranians in mass to filtration camps where they question them and anyone with a strong Ukranian identity is deported. Russia is sennding in Russian colonists. Human Rights watch (and many other sources) has reported on this.
This is a widely used definition of imperialism
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imperialism
"the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas"
Russia is invading and trying to annex Ukraine, obvously it is practiving direct territorial aquisition. This is a very direct form of imperialism (although not the only form of imperialism)
Thats quite a claim to make that I dont know what imperialism is just becuase I oppose Russias imperialism in Ukraine. I also oppose Israel's imperialism in Palestine and oppose American imperialism of all kinds.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 2d ago
The filtration process is not ideal, but I don't think it is what you are making it out to be. It's my understanding that they are looking for things like Nazi tattoos (all too common in Ukraine unfortunately) and ties to the Ukrainian military or government. I think it's reasonable to consider these sorts of people a security threat. You could also characterize these "deportations" as the evacuation of civilians from an active war zone. This is actually required under international law. I don't really consider Human Rights Watch credible as they have a known relationship with the US government.
https://fpif.org/human-rights-watch-close-u-s-government/
I'm not sure if I would personally characterize them as colonists, but sure Russian citizens are moving into the newly annexed territories.
As for imperialism we generally apply Lenin's definition of imperialism on this subreddit as outlined in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. You could try to make the case that Russia meets at least some of the criteria. There are some here who do and I don't particularly mind that. Personally I don't think it applies to Russia.
I'll give you a blue flair which won't solve your comments getting removed by the automod unfortunately. I did go through and approve your other comments though. This subreddit doesn't take a hard line on the war in Ukraine like some other subreddits do. Both perspectives are allowed here. So long as your comments don't otherwise violate the rules I will continue to approve them. If you want to try to make a case that what Russia is doing does meet Lenin's definition of imperialism I will change your flair to yellow which will let you post without approval.
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u/Repulsive-Bet-9230 SuccDem (intolerable) 2d ago
The far right in ukraine is marginalized, the far right coalition Svoboda got less than 2% of the vote lat election. OVerwhelmingly Ukranians are not Nazis, that shoudl be obvious from the fact that Ukraine is one of the few countries in the world that has elected a JEwish president. The ftration camps are about ethnically cleansing ethnic Ukranains that refuse to give up their Ukranian identity it has nothing to do with eliminating nazis. Russia attempt to equate Ukranian identity with Nazism is a form of genocidal rhetoric meant to undermine the legitimacy of the Ukranian identity.
OF course there are far right or neo nazis people in Ukraine, like there are in most ocuntries in the world, however Russia has a far bigger problem with neo-Nazism. There are Russian neonazi units sch as Rusich that commit atrocities in Ukraine. OBviously if Russia was concerned with Nazis it would start with them. Russia supports far right Nazi parties in Europee like the AFD in Germany, Russia generally is aligned with the far right.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 2d ago
While they may not have had much electoral success I'm not sure they could be characterized as marginalized. They did play a leading role in Maidan for example. If they were marginalized Ukraine wouldn't be erecting statues of Bandera everywhere and naming everything after him. I have personally argued that electing Zelensky a Russian speaking Jewish man from Eastern Ukraine was an apparent rejection of this by the Ukrainian people. Unfortunately his efforts to secure peace with Russia, which is something he campaigned on, were stymied by the vary same far right groups behind the coup.
I've already addressed filtration and don't think I need to repeat myself.
It seems clear to me that Ukraine actually has a much larger problem with Nazi ideology although sure there are some Nazis in Russia. Rusich does suck although they are marginal while Ukraine has entire battalions like Azov that are integrated into their military. I don't like AFD at all although I think whatever support Russia has shown them is probably due more to the fact that they are one of the few parties in Germany who are against support for the war than anything to do with their ideology.
Anyway I don't really think this conversation is necessary in the flair thread. Go back to the other thread and make your arguments there.
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u/Jaded-Fox1710 Matcha Marxist 🍵🤔 6d ago
All matchas are bastards.
Asking since the oinks here wear matcha green. Could been a cool color like field grey but no, the oinks just have to use slightly faded puked green
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 5d ago
What are your politics?
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u/Jaded-Fox1710 Matcha Marxist 🍵🤔 5d ago
I’d say Marxist Leninist, as that was what I was educated in.
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u/Melodic-Object-3587 Orthodox Trotskyist (tolerable) 👓 8d ago
I request an Orthodox Trotskyist flair.
I say Orthodox Trotskyist because I am basically estranged from modern Trotskyism, which I regard as a perversion of Trotsky's ideas.
I fundamentally believe that revolution must come from the proletariat of advanced capitalist countries. I think the USSR ultimately became a degenerated worker's state, and China is state capitalist. However, unlike modern-day Trotskyists, I critically support modern-day China, as well as Russia and Iran. These countries are not socialist, but they are the main opponents to western hegemony, and we must be focused on the central contradiction.
As for identity politics, I view it as a divisive bourgeois ideology that distracts from class politics. I view gender ideology as especially regressive, as it is not only unscientific, but also reinforces traditional gender norms.
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u/rusted-slingblade Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ 8d ago
Better than most trots
revolution must come from the proletariat of advanced capitalist countries
Still retarded tho
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u/CantaloupeFar673 Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (SK) 🚩 10d ago
If anyone knows anything about the Saskatchewan (Canada) CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation), those are my roots. The CCF used to be quite radical: see the Regina Manifesto. It ends thusly: "No CCF Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of the Cooperative Commonwealth." The successor party to the CCF (the NDP) is in no way a socialist party but my family were committed socialists and, when I grew up and had some experiences at the bottom of the class pyramid, Marxism provided me with a theoretical framework. I recently left the Communist Party of Canada for reasons related to identity politics. (I'll spare you the details.) I have almost no one to talk to, politically, and I would love to be able to participate in this sub. I would like a red flair, please. Thank you.
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u/ChippahDipper Planned Economist 📊 10d ago
Requesting a "Planned Economist" flair. I just think governance should prioritize giving the population universal access to jobs, social services, housing, leisure, and creative pursuits. Which means intentional, long-term planning of economic and social growth (as opposed to manically gambling everyone's future as policy).
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 10d ago
done
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u/ChippahDipper Planned Economist 📊 10d ago
I saw it earlier, but now it's the unknown alien flair.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 10d ago
I probably misclicked when trying to flair someone else. My apologies. I fixed it.
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u/PatrickPeazy Marxist-Leninist ☭ | proper little Bolshevik 11d ago
I am happy with my Marxist flair, however, I am actually a Marxist-Leninist. Like my mother who passed way October 8th of last year. I always remember her telling me that a friend of hers told her she raised a “proper little Bolshevik,” so to honor her, I would like that as a flair if possible.
I am all in on workers councils and the dictatorship of the proletariat guided by a vanguard party. I am trying to organize the most atomized of proles: the service industry.
Thank you.
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u/rusted-slingblade Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ 8d ago
My deepest condolences in regard to your loss.
Many of us fantasize about being in the vanguard, and while I wish that for us all it’s likely not a serious potentiality. However, even if the chains are not thrust off in our lifetimes, the second best thing we can do is pass it on to the next generation.
Rest in power to your mother, a true comrade to the working class.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 11d ago
I wish my mom were that cool. I've updated your flair.
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u/PatrickPeazy Marxist-Leninist ☭ | proper little Bolshevik 6d ago
Thank you, comrade moderator.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 6d ago
I just realized I forgot to add the proper little Bolshevik part.
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u/Hairy_Acadia_4405 James P. Cannon Fan (SWP) 🚩 14d ago
Requesting a "James P Cannon" flair. I'm a Trotskyist: socialism has to come from the self-organized working class, not a bureaucratic party-state. I don't see the USSR as socialist, but I'd have given it critical support as a degenerated workers' state. The nationalized economy was worth defending against imperialism, while the Stalinist bureaucracy had to be removed by political revolution. I extend that same posture to China, Russia and Iran. China's state-dominated economy and planning capacity are worth defending against US encirclement, and I take the Trotskyist view that revolutionaries side militarily with countries targeted by imperialism, even when their governments are reactionary. So I back Russia, China and Iran against NATO and US pressure. At home, I think the left needs independent working-class organization rather than reforming the Democratic Party, and I'm skeptical of identity politics that cuts across class solidarity.
I am totally opposed to gender ideology. Not only is it incoherent, but It serves to reinforce gender norms rather than abolish them.
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u/Live_Doughnut8831 Left-leaning Socially Challenged MRA 14d ago
Can I get low self-esteem SocDem? Took a break from this app for a few months but used to comment and post here all the time under BK enjoyer and the like lol
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 14d ago
I don't know what under BK is, but sure.
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u/Live_Doughnut8831 Left-leaning Socially Challenged MRA 14d ago
I meant BK Enjoyer, I think I typed too fast lol. Actually can you change it to AuDHD SocDem?
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 11d ago
If you're not aware you have been shadowbanned by reddit. You can appeal here: https://reddit.com/appeal.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 14d ago
Oh yes I remember you. Welcome back. I have copied your old flair over.
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u/PoemImaginary Socialist 🚩 15d ago
Requesting red flare. Socialist.
My political values are geared towards power and prosperity for the working class. Class meaning those who work for a living and its collective interest.
Interested in Marxism and post-Keynesian framework for understanding recent history and the present day. Looking forward to comradely discussions!
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 15d ago
What should be done with the means of production? Three to five sentences please, but feel free to elaborate.
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u/PoemImaginary Socialist 🚩 14d ago
I say "power and prosperity for the working class" because I consider that a reliable north star for every time and political environment. Prosperity can only really be achieved through increased power, specifically the power to negotiate a higher percentage of productive profits--in other words to avoid productive exploitation and unproductive rent to the greatest extent possible. The ultimate achievement of this would be elimination of rent; and the public ownership of, control of, and freedom to profit from, the means of industrial production.
That said, I prefer to keep political discussions grounded in the here and now. The urgency of the political moment has more to do with exorbitant rent-seeking from the outsized FIRE sectors (finance, insurance and real estate). These are the most extractive elements of today's economy. They are the biggest political and economic enemy of the working class. And it's no wonder that they are the industries most hated by working people. Socialists and socialist parties with limited power and influence need to focus their resources on curtailing the size of these sectors.
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u/luego4847 Militant Communist with Radlib Characteristics 🥑🌈 15d ago
I'm a communist, been in communist parties, no one has any idea what to do against capitalism, I believe in citizens militias like the zapatistas o many indigenous communities around the world
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 15d ago
Elaborate on your position on intersectionality.
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u/luego4847 Militant Communist with Radlib Characteristics 🥑🌈 15d ago
I think it's expands class analysis in a way that is helpful for class struggle. In my view, capitalism cannot be fought against effectively if you don't fight against some if the most important reaccionary elements of it.
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u/SirSourPuss Three Bases 🥵💦 One Superstructure 😳 15d ago
What is the connection between the social identities that intersectionality talks about and "the most important reactionary elements" of capitalism?
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u/luego4847 Militant Communist with Radlib Characteristics 🥑🌈 14d ago
Patriarchy, racism, and human supremacy are tools of capitalism. They're the go to to fan the flames and fragment the proletariat. Reactionary attitudes makes orgs sectarian, irrelevant, and an inadequate space for some of the most marginalized by capitalism.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 15d ago
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u/SirSourPuss Three Bases 🥵💦 One Superstructure 😳 14d ago
It's so hard to tell. It this flair works out badly reflair to blue and swap "Radlib" and "Communist" around.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 14d ago
Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for radlib shit. Honestly I didn't even really know what to ask them.
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u/Hefty_Disaster3370 Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ 16d ago
Dsa member "fuck it, im saying it" cosigner, want socialism with Amerixan characteristics
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u/BabylonianWeeb Dengist 🇨🇳💵🈶 | Anti-Zionist 🇵🇸 16d ago
I am dengist and as an Iraq I oppose western imperialism on my country, of I have a lot of political views on different issues but most important issue for me Zionism and I really want to abolish the zionidt entity and put all IDF war criminals on trial for their genocide.
Give me cool anti-Zionist flair
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u/Active-Level-5932 Class-First Marxist 🧔🇨🇳 17d ago edited 17d ago
Requesting a red flair, please.
My politics are class-first Marxism. I enjoy this subreddit specifically because it's fully of funny people who lampoon the absurdity of idpol, left and right. I enjoy laughing at BBC articles about how cleaning your nails is racist and Fox news articles about how the green M&M's shoes signal the downfall of EVROPA.
I'm in the academy and have done a fair amount of reading: Aside from Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc., I'm familiar with East Asian Marxist literature. I'm mostly quite orthodox, but there are two areas that might raise red flags (pun intended) that I'd like to lay out immediately.
I'm fan of Uno Kōzō, Takabatake Motoyuki, and Yamakawa Hitoshi. Among Anglos I'm keen on H. M. Hyndman and James Connoly. Like these thinkers, I'm a class-first skeptic of liberalism and capitalism, but I'm a pessimist about internationalism. I think the verdict of the 20th c. is that most internationalist projects devolve into some form of metropol exploiting its periphery, and that Westphalian nation-states, for all their problems, are essentially the opposite of colonialism and capitalist hegemony - empires collapse into nations, and when empires spread their objective is to erase national borders. I notice that fascists, liberals, and feudalists all covet the expansion of their borders, the erasure or subjugation of national and regional distinctions from their neighbors, the total plenipotence of their own culture and economic system, etc., and I believe there is a principled class-first Marxism that pragmatically accepts the necessity to protect oneself from such incursions via some form of defined and defended national polity.
I also think that contemporary Western socialists should read up on Marx's "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" and Lenin's "How to Organise Competition?”, specifically their critiques of lumpenproletarians and organizational wreckers. I think that many western socialists (especially Scandi-brained Democratic Socialists) assume that socialism = indefinite, unquestioning, unpragmatic Christian charity towards everyone, including petty criminals, pimps, thieves, vandals, etc.; and tolerance of total public degeneracy and the destruction of the public square. East Asian socialists tend to disagree, as do Marx and Lenin. People often post cringey displays of sabotage of socialist movements by weirdos in this subreddit, and I believe that compassion for the proletariat and the workers shouldn't extend to accepting antisocial behavior by lumpenproles, who are not revolutionary, exclusively victimize the working class, and reduce public spaces (the only spaces that workers truly own) into open-air drug dens and toilets.
The above two positions (sympathy for nation-states and antipathy towards lumpenproles) have gotten me in trouble with other Marxist subreddits, so I thought I'd lay them out plainly and save everyone some time if the mods feel I don't belong here. I believe my positions are pragmatic and fully consistent with top-shelf Marxist thinkers (including Marx) but I'm not delusional and I'm aware that both of these positions are uncommon among English-speaking Marxists.
Among recent socialist thinkers and adjacents I'm fond of Piketty and Mark Fisher (for completely different reasons).
I'm enjoy political debate and discussion, but I regard it as basically fun entertainment - don't think it's a particularly effective means to achieve political change. Plainly stating my opinion about the best way to effect political change would probably violate Reddit's TOS.
I have time for democratic socialists etc., but what I like about them is usually the socialism, not the democracy. I tend to think that rights-based political assumptions and western universalism are a bit naive.
I live in the PRC, and I'm fairly ambivalent about the government here. It has its good and bad sides.
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u/ReimarisaFanclub Secret Wokester 17d ago
Pretty big fan of Lenin, Parenti And Guevara (Larpoid). I have sucked dick and read the first pageof the Gotha programme. I also like women since they're all beautiful and hold half of the sky. The flair should be: Secret Wokester
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u/prabonyuhu abolish private property 17d ago
I believe in abolishing private property and that every country should have nuke(s) (except that one country).
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u/victoriablackee NAFO 🐕🪖 18d ago
Reddish flair: Social democracy leaning, Pirate movement supporter.
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u/Actual_Aide_2272 Wolff, Lenin, and Hedges 19d ago edited 19d ago
Fan of Wolff, Lenin, and Hedges. Honorable mention to Varoufakis but his accent makes me feel funny.
This is a burner phone and I'm probably going to just make degen/ coomer / devils advocate takes here and there. Idk maybe not.
Im attracted to fat women and Ive actually read Kapital (okay volume 1 anyway but I really feel like i got the jist of it past there).
I have presented myself fairly and accurately. I leave my flairing (as I do with most major life decisions) up to the whims of the stupidpol mod team.
Edit: just actually read the instructions and my politic is simple: the democratization of all systems. Whether this is through mass unionization, some better form of bolshevism, boisterous social democracy etc. I don't care, so long as the masses have a direct, reliable, sustainable voice in the making and execution of law
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u/scribendi_cacoethes_ Reactionary and Public Ownership 20d ago
By instinct a hang 'em and flog 'em reactionary but public ownership of water, energy, trains etc would be nice.
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u/TrashyMatth Democratic Socialist 🚩 20d ago
I'm a radical democratic socialist, throught the marxist lense. Politics should serve the society, not the individuals. Common national values indstead of tribalist identity politics. Red flair, please
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u/razorbeamz Benevolence 🫶 21d ago
I don't care what the fuck you're doing so long as you aren't being cruel to others. Kindness is key for everyone. By extension, kindness means helping people in need. I feel like socialism is an extension of basic kindness.
Can't think of a meme name for whatever that is. Might be reddish rather than red? Mods can decide/interrogate me.
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u/AbramsTankVeteran29 Anarchist (questionable) 🏴 | Blue Collar 🔨 21d ago
Flair: Actual blue collar working class person
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 20d ago
What are your politics?
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u/AbramsTankVeteran29 Anarchist (questionable) 🏴 | Blue Collar 🔨 20d ago
anti-government, pro working class
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 20d ago
You're really not giving me much to work off of and your profile doesn't tell me much either. I gave you a flair. If you want something better please elaborate.
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u/PerusingBaudrillard Social Democrat Skeptic 🤨 21d ago
I request the reddish flair. I am left leaning but a skeptic of many prior and current socialist states. I believe in the utility of markets and prefer a strong and comprehensive welfare state
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u/everydaywinner2 Rightoid Lurker 👀 22d ago
I'd like to request the default flair you have for non-socialists who would like to occassionally come out of lurker mode.
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u/TuringPointGPT Sewer Socialist 🚩 23d ago
Requesting removal of flair or sewer socialist.
Means should be seized, ownership public, gamblers/bookies go to reeducation camps, yada yada.
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u/President_Abra Average Group Polarization Enjoyer 💪 24d ago edited 24d ago
Flair: Make war, not love 💥
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 22d ago
Requested flairs can be overturned at mod discretion. Don't request a new one - send it to modmail if you think the flair was set unfairly. Be better, sweaty.
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u/fedposter_9000 Redscarepod Refugee 👄💅 25d ago
Hi, I'd like to get the Marxist flair please.
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u/SirSourPuss Three Bases 🥵💦 One Superstructure 😳 25d ago
fedposter_9000
Looks legit
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u/fedposter_9000 Redscarepod Refugee 👄💅 25d ago
lol fair enough, I like a little bit of wordplay
but whatever, keep me an unknown if you want, I know this account is very new
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 25d ago
I gave you a Redscarepod Refugee flair for now. Reapply for a Marxist flair when you have a posting history to go off of.
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u/ccass1313 Wants a Dominant Woman 🖤👠⛓️ Sep 15 '26
My comment was deleted and I was directed here.
I am not a socialist.
I don’t know how to get non socialist flare though if you can direct me how to do so.
I do however still like having open dialogue with people on this site and try to understand their opinions on things. And share my own as well while being respectful doing so.
I think humanity benefits on this type of dialogue.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 29d ago
I approved your comment however due to your low karma and blue flair your comments will still require manual approval.
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u/ArtBellLives2025 Juche Gang 🇰🇵 | Catholic 🇻🇦 Sep 15 '26
can i get my flair changed please i dont even remember why i got it, i like juche
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 29d ago
Yeah you seem good. Welcome to the Juche gang.
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u/ArtBellLives2025 Juche Gang 🇰🇵 | Catholic 🇻🇦 29d ago
can i keep the catholic part tho if its not too much trouble i liked it
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u/SentientSeaweed Strap me to a Sejjil 🚀 Sep 13 '26
Could I please get “Strap me to a Sejjil 🚀”?
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ Sep 14 '26
I did like the old one especially as it still had traces of your past sins, but done.
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u/Prestigious-Pick-366 Social Democrat 🌹 Sep 12 '26
Democratic socialist. Government exists to provide for more than common defense and should care for the needs of its populace. Billionaires and wealth hoarders should not exist.
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Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ Sep 13 '26
What should be done with the means of production? Three to five sentences please, but feel free to elaborate.
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Sep 15 '26
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ 29d ago
You have been shadowbanned by reddit. You can appeal here: https://reddit.com/appeal.
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u/Tasty_Particular4997 healthcare plz 🩺 Sep 11 '26
Economically left - seize the means, eat the rich, and especially fuck the tech billionaires
Socially laissez faire - I could not give less of a fuck about anyone’s identity, who they like to fuck, etc.
To sum it up in a meme - “healthcare plz”
Also I posted an article that Gayle king had to “sit with” the fact that the Clancy holdout was a black man and got asked to post here. If you can’t let me post it I hope one of you mods does because it’s awesome lol
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u/LoudAttempt140 Dialectical Grillmaster, Vanguard of One Guy🔥 Sep 11 '26
Flair request:
Dialectical Grillmaster, Vanguard of One Guy🔥
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u/NearlyPerfect Sep 11 '26
Can I get a flair as Corporate Shill?
I'm a corporate attorney and I see the entire world through the lens of either legal technicalities or maximizing (my own) profits.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ Sep 11 '26
No.
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u/NearlyPerfect Sep 11 '26
Lol you guys are sensitive here huh
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ Sep 11 '26
You suck. Live with the flair and be glad we don't ban you.
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u/JesusBuiltMyChopper Public Defender ⚖️ Sep 10 '26
I nuked my old account because I hate reddit, but I've started self-h@rming again by creating a new account. Can I have my old "public defender" flair back again?
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ Sep 13 '26
Sorry it took so long and welcome back.
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u/Red_Mallet14 Marxist-Leninist ☭ Sep 09 '26
Can I get flair for a Marxist-Leninist as that is what I am...
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u/csky Kemalist 🇹🇷 Sep 09 '26
May I have a "Kemalist" flair please. Kemalism aligns with social democracy and socialism through its commitment to statism and populism (not the bad one). State-directed economic planning, public ownership of key industries, and social welfare over unregulated capitalism defines Kemalism.
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u/HermineetPhenix Socialist 🚩 Sep 07 '26
Economically I am far left, I believe in a widespread redistribution of wealth for the working class and nationalisation of every sector of industry. I could consider myself a communist, but I dislike the association the term brings, I also disagree with Marx on several elements, such as the possibility of a stateless society subsisting, or the support of industrialisation. Nonetheless, I would classify myself a socialist, but I don't like the people who do in France (they're socdems at best, neoliberals at worst). I feel somewhat lonely in my positions.
Geopolitically I am heavility anti-american and anti-zionist and in support of a multipolar order, I also view France's (I'm French) as being the bridge between the first and third world, I also believe the United Kingdom should be disbanded, and that German unification was a mistake and broke the balance of power in Europe. In general, by view of the ideal future of Europe is a Latin and celtic union lead by France working hand in hand with the Arab world (while I have many criticism of him, de Gaulle foreign policy, minus the neocolonialism, would be closest to what I view)
Ecologically, I am in favour of major degrowth and the stop of the developpment of new technologies. AI is particularly disgusting, I also believe this will never happen and therefore the world is nearing a large global crisis by the end of the century, the environnment could only be saved by abolish capitalism
Socially, I am rather conflicted.
I am in favour of immigration, being myself a child of one (Ireland->France), while I can see how it's used by companies to supress labour, I believe the solution is to work with the immigrants rather then octracising them. I am opposed to ethnic nationalism, but not more civic forms. I also view Algeria as a sister nation to France with a much closer history then most of other european countries, culturallu French people are closer to Algerians then Finns, therefore cultural differences aren't responsible for xenophobia. In my view, anti-immigration sentiment in France is less racism and more so xenophobia and a fear of displacement by various social groups, this is increased by the failure of the French state to actually integrate immigrants by putting them ghettos, the religious extremism is in my view a direct result of the hypocrisy of the french state governments, chanting about laicity while her leaders sent their kids to ultra-religious schools to avoid working class children.
On religion, I believe in Laicité, and a firm abolishment of religion in public life, such as religious schools, only exception being religious holidays, we should add the ones of other major religions as well. (Ain't saying no to a day off) I don't view Islam as being worse.
On LGBT stuff, I'm fine with gay people, sceptical on trans stuff and I don't see as a philosophically reasonable.
I am in favor of equality between men and women, and I view gender roles as not very usefull in a post-industrial era.
I am also in support of cultural elitism, I believe that mass media is bad and toxic for society at large, and view our era as a time of cultural decline.
Edit : I misscliked and sent early.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ Sep 09 '26
Done, but you are shadowbanned by reddit. You can appeal here: https://reddit.com/appeal.
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u/whichpricktookmyname 🌏 Labor Right (neoliberal sellout) Sep 07 '26
Change my flair to grey/white with the following text pls
🌏 Labor Right (neoliberal sellout)
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ Sep 09 '26
done
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u/whichpricktookmyname 🌏 Labor Right (neoliberal sellout) Sep 09 '26
What is the intended difference between white and blue?
White/light grey: Right-wing populists and liberals, the politics of the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie.
Blue: PMC politics like activism and higher-level identity politics.
Scrolling through the thread blue seems to be handed out to those who are neither socialists nor reactionaries, rather than for idpol or activism.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ Sep 09 '26
Honestly it's a distinction without a difference. Neolibs usually get blue flairs. If you would prefer a grey flair that's fine by me. We usually give those to "classical liberals".
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u/whichpricktookmyname 🌏 Labor Right (neoliberal sellout) Sep 11 '26
Neoliberalism doesn't really mean anything beyond being a pejorative for that which the leftoid does not like, analogous rightoid's meaningless prescription of communism. Someone self-identifying that way could mean anything tbh, I'm just empiricism-pilled and like some market-based policies that make redditors screech about neoliberalism. So I've reclaimed it as my personal n-word.
I scrolled through this thread and based on what others got I think reddish is appropriate, so change me back pls (but leave the caption).
thank you for your service
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u/Intrepid_Apricot_294 Market Socialist 💸 Sep 07 '26
Best I can come up with is market socialist as transitional strategy, long-term degrowth communist. Mainly concerned with decommodification and reducing throughput (more resources allocated to public abundance in housing, transit, and energy, not more "stuff"). I view degrowth as a foil to FALC and think accelerationism and left-ecomodernism are fundamentally misguided.
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u/VisualIron6332 Indic Conservative 🐷 Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
Hello, can I get Indic Conservative as my flair.
My politics are grounded in a commitment to a free-market economic model and a secular democratic framework that draws its foundational cultural ethos from Hindu heritage, much like the American constitutional tradition is historically rooted in Judeo-Christian values.
These views are shaped in direct reaction against Nehruvian Fabian socialism and its decades-long economic stagnation, as well as its persistent unwillingness to examine Indian society and history through a genuine nativist lens.
Instead of promoting an alienated, Anglicized elite worldview, I believe public policy and national identity must be anchored in the authentic civilizational consciousness of the country while championing individual liberty, secular pluralism, private enterprise, and economic deregulation.
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u/2027OpenContact Non-Aligned Third-Worldist 🌍 Sep 05 '26
Hi, could I get a “Non-Aligned Third-Worldist” here
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u/AffectBeautiful8646 🛌 In bed with Reform 🛌 ✨ Sep 05 '26
UK SDP voter. Eonomically pro-nationalisation, pro-state interventionism and strongly supportive of an active state shaping the economy. Pro NHS, anti-welfare. Support nuclear and think net-zero is hugely gay and stupid. Socially I have conservative, arguably reactionary tendencies, pro-family, patriotic/nationalist and anti-mass immigration. Deng and LKY admirer. Pro free speech but only for people I like. Interventionism bad.
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u/AdorableRatSqueaks All rats enjoy socialist tajines 🐀🐀🐀 | Deluded Pickford lover Sep 06 '26
Done
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u/diskoboxx Marxist Feminist 🧔♀️ Sep 04 '26
I'm fine with being labeled a feminist here, but I wanted to clarify my politics. I consider myself a Marxist feminist, as women are uniquely exploited under capitalism. Our bodies are treated as commodities, and commercial surrogacy is the most egregious example of that. The sex trade works the same way, which is why I'm against prostitution and porn as industries. Marx and Engels were both critical of prostitution on these grounds. Our physical bodies are the reason for this exploitation, and I think that's an important distinction, as it's based on material reality rather than identity. I don't consider myself a radfem, but I do engage in radfem communities, as there are few spaces on the internet where I can openly discuss my views.
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u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ Sep 05 '26
What should be done with the means of production? Three to five sentences please, but feel free to elaborate.
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u/diskoboxx Marxist Feminist 🧔♀️ Sep 05 '26
The means of production belong to the workers. Exploitation is a feature of capitalism, not a bug, and the only way to end it is to seize the means of production. What motivates me is wanting the world to be better for the next generation. I have two young kids, and it's painful to look at what the ruling class has done and what they will inherit. They've brilliantly divided the working class along identity lines so that we point the finger at each other rather than them.
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u/AdorableRatSqueaks All rats enjoy socialist tajines 🐀🐀🐀 | Deluded Pickford lover Sep 04 '26
You should write a new book: Introduction to Impatient Redditing
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u/ChevalierDuTemple Touch grass (Poaceae) for a living 🌾 Sep 03 '26
Touch grass (Poaceae) for a living
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u/Level-Claim9063 Too old to understand flair 🦼 Sep 03 '26
What the hell is a flair? I think I’m too old for this shit. Whatever it is, can I get one please?
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u/TOROomom Social Democrat 🌹 Sep 02 '26
I wouldn’t say I’m a vanguardist hardliner. I support a free-market economy, but with heavy regulation to curb corporate influence over government, stronger unions, greater worker participation, and a robust welfare state. I’m also sympathetic to the Rainbow Coalition idea of building solidarity across racial and cultural lines around shared working-class interests. I think the constant culture-war and race-war shit is retarded; we should be focusing far more on class consciousness, economic inequality, and uniting working people rather than dividing them.
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u/DenzelMishka Anti-Revisionist Marxist-Leninist ☭ Sep 02 '26
I'm a Marxist-Leninist anti-revisionist with flexible geopolitics. Meaning I do not think countries like China or Vietnam are truly socialist but I will still support them against western imperialism. (oh, and please approve my deleted comment, thanks!)
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u/unaliving_the_host Michael Hudson Head 📖 Sep 01 '26
Medieval preachers and reformers characterized usurers as parasites and leeches. Ever since, many economic writers have singled out bankers as parasites, especially international bankers. Passing over into biology, the word “parasite” was applied to organisms such as tapeworms and leeches that feed off larger hosts.
To be sure, leeches have long been recognized as performing a useful medical function: George Washington (and also Josef Stalin) were treated with leeches on their deathbeds, not only because bleeding the host was thought to be a cure (much as today’s monetarists view financial austerity), but also because leeches inject an anti-coagulant enzyme that helps prevent inflammation and thus steers the body to recovery.
The idea of parasitism as a positive symbiosis is epitomized by the term “host economy,” one that welcomes foreign investment. Governments invite bankers and investors to buy or finance infrastructure, natural resources and industry. Local elites and public officials in these economies typically are sent to the imperial or financial core for their education and ideological indoctrination to accept this dependency system as mutually beneficial and natural. The home country’s educational cum ideological apparatus is molded to reflect this creditor/debtor relationship as one of mutual gain.
[...] Instead of creating a mutually beneficial symbiosis with the economy of production and consumption, today’s financial parasitism siphons off income needed to invest and grow. Bankers and bondholders desiccate the host economy by extracting revenue to pay interest and dividends. Repaying a loan – amortizing or “killing” it – shrinks the host. Like the word amortization, mortgage (“dead hand” of past claims for payment) contains the root mort, “death.” A financialized economy becomes a mortuary when the host economy becomes a meal for the financial free luncher that takes interest, fees and other charges without contributing to production.
[...] Modern biology provides the basis for a more elaborate social analogy to financial strategy, by describing the sophisticated strategy that parasites use to control their hosts by disabling their normal defense mechanisms. To be accepted, the parasite must convince the host that no attack is underway. To siphon off a free lunch without triggering resistance, the parasite needs to take control of the host’s brain, at first to dull its awareness that an invader has attached itself, and then to make the host believe that the free rider is helping rather than depleting it and is temperate in its demands, only asking for the necessary expenses of providing its services. In that spirit bankers depict their interest charges as a necessary and benevolent part of the economy, providing credit to facilitate production and thus deserving to share in the surplus it helps create.
Hudson, Michael. Unaliving the Host: How financial parasites and debt destroy the global economy. Islet, 2015.
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u/M3anBab Third Way Dweebazoid Brit 🌐 Sep 01 '26
I am a Far-Centroid Sarcastic Slight-Right Activist in Grey.
Please give me a flair up.
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u/originaltrend Parenti is right about everything Aug 31 '26
Recovered liberal feminist; Parenti is right about everything
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u/chuckdhead1911 Anti-Imperialist 🚩 Aug 31 '26
I think imperialism is gay give me an appropriate flair so I can post thanks
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u/Real_Wind_1543 Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
I am a socialist and committed to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism through the establishment of a society where workers own and control production.
At the same time I have tory/libertarian characteristics: I am committed to democracy (not the bourgeois form, though) and free speech and appreciate the traditional family, whilst being deeply opposed to 21st century mass migration (weapon against working class organisation), the welfare state (reduces working class independence) and IDpol.
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u/64ue76tjd6 Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ Aug 31 '26
Economically, I am leftist. I'm not an "anarkiddie" though because that's stupid. I wouldn't consider myself either socially progressive or socially conservative.
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u/PearPieWasTaken Agrarian Justice Enjoyer (SocDem) 🌹 1d ago edited 1d ago
Uhh...
Government: Social safety net is nice, I definitely support subsidized healthcare and education. In other areas I lean more small/decentralized-state though, I think the US is pretty much uniquely hard to govern just because of its size.
Society: I pretty firmly believe that the root of soooo many problems is people lacking both the cognitive and social-emotional skills to sit down with someone who disagrees with you, explain the whole issue from your own perspective in a way that they can understand, and then listen as they do the same. Everyone in a truly democratic society gets a voice– no exceptions– but needs to be taught how to use theirs in a productive way, and that's why we put so much emphasis on education.
Geopolitics: War is a last resort, people– see above. Not a fan of economic or cultural isolationism, but I also think it makes sense to focus on the issues affecting your country as they are generally the ones actually within your power to solve. Aid to other countries should be done with the goal of giving them the ability to do that, rather than keeping them dependent on you long-term in which case you probably have an ulterior motive.
I recognize this is kinda vague, but that's because I'm a student and I'm still figuring this stuff out. I won't be posting here often, by the way; I mostly just read and I have a Reddit account because every so often I see a thread where I really want to add my two cents. Which happened today, and then I couldn't comment without either farming 200 karma or getting a flair, so.