| ▲ | impossiblefork 14 hours ago | |
Left-leaning politics is not at all like early 1900eds left-leaning politics. Left-leaning politics has moved to very mild, not-even-social-democracy policies, taxation of wage income, a decreased focus on capital owners. Left-leaning politics has thus been transformed beyond belief and has very little to do with what it used to. Most politicians have no idea about physical reality, which is the ultimate source of technology, but live sometimes in a world of administration, sometimes in a world of laws and sometimes in a world of politics only. Left-liberals don't exist. Liberalism is a right-wing ideology: free trade, laissez-faire. So I don't understand at all what you mean. What are the SocDems who have gone from being SocDems to not knowing what social democracy is and who now think about things like welfare and administrative stuff and living in a world of compromises attached to? I can't see that they're attached to anything, and I think I despise them for it. At least someone who looks back to the past can look at it and critique it and see what ideas were valuable, what the real goals were, that led to different positive achievements. | ||
| ▲ | lacy_tinpot 12 hours ago | parent [-] | |
"Left-liberals don't exist" This is straight out of the 19th and 20th century. Like old-socialist rhetoric (emphasis on the old). Even the revolutionary politics is basically a conservative regurgitation of the 19th and 20th century. Like this is de facto how the socialists and communists have always thought about the liberals and even enlightenment era thinkers, accusing the entire project of fascism, Western European imperialism, and so on. It's almost like a caricature of the 19th and 20th century at this point. There is no new politics. No new frontiers. Nothing new. Even as the entire world has completely changed, and the ground completely shifted. | ||