So by what definition of leftist thought could this possibly be okay?

Wikipedia has one (ideologies that seek social equality and egalitarianism), which this is clearly incompatible with. It's certainly unacceptable to socialists, communists, anarchists, syndicalists or social democrats.

Liberals are not leftists. Liberals are mostly inviolable-property + free-trade type people.

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philwelch 6 days ago | parent [-]

Soviet Russia was not an egalitarian society, it was a brutal dictatorship governed by an effective ruling class of party members. Mainland China is the same. If that’s your standard of “leftism”, you’re drawing the line somewhere to the far left of any self-proclaimed communist party that has ever held power in any country. This is clearly absurd.

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impossiblefork 6 days ago | parent [-]

So you're saying that Soviet Russia doesn't fit the Wikipedia definition of leftism.

I don't see how that makes US university professors leftists. What definition of leftism are you using?

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philwelch 5 days ago | parent [-]

You’re the commie version of those annoying right wingers who like to start semantic arguments that the Nazis weren’t really right wing.

Leftism is an incoherent and false ideology fundamentally unsuited to the governance of human societies. Once you recognize that fact, the hypocrisy of actual leftists will cease to surprise you.

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impossiblefork 5 days ago | parent [-]

Leftism isn't one ideology. There are many kinds of leftism.

But why do you refuse to define it?

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