• nahuse@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Is a real bummer because I am quite a lefty in my own group and general society, and I was hoping for some challenges from further left. But I guess if it’s not straight up revolutionary blood lust it’s just authoritarianism apologists.

    Again, it’s one of the reasons I was stoked to join the lemmy/fediverse in the first place.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah. They are not further left, they’re just the slightly left wing inside the rest of right wing fascism

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      7 months ago

      Same. This is my exact experience as well. They absolutely refuse to engage with broader leftist ideas on any academic level. They legitimately think the philosophy ended with Lenin and Mao. Even fucking Jacobin doesn’t have enough revolution fan service for them.

      I do kind of get a kick out of them quoting Chomsky though, who is absolutely no friend to Marxist-Leninist brain rot.