• In a weird way, it’s kind of “so left wing it curled round the back and ended up on the far right”.

    If you think of “left wing” as in “we support Pol Pot, Stalin, Putin etc” rather than “let’s open a community-run vegan art cafe to promote understanding between diverse social groups”.

    Wikipaedia article here

    • Flying Squid
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      “let’s open a community-run vegan art cafe to promote understanding between diverse social groups”.

      It wasn’t a vegan art cafe, but the town I grew up in opened a community-run “Peace and Justice Center” that was a direct evolution from the protest camp that was set up at the start of the 1992 Iraq war. It lasted about 2 months because they had no idea what a peace and justice center was supposed to do. They did let several homeless people sleep there in violation of zoning regulations, though.

    • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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      21 year ago

      I agree with your characterisation, but obviously I think that version of left-wing isn’t really left. It’s state capitalism with a red flag.

      That said, I’d add that the anarchist and other libertarian leftists (ancaps stole the word libertarian from the left btw) absolutely have revolutionary aims and activities, we aren’t just sitting around singing kumbaya. I didn’t sense you were trying to belittle us but I wanted to add that.