• diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    Communists are anti-liberal.

    Liberalism as a political philosophy is the underpinning of capitalism.

    We can’t destroy capitalism without doing away with it’s political philosophy.

    As an aside, from this perspective both American liberals and conservatives are liberals - they both spring from the philosophy of liberalism.

    I understand that it’s confusing to hear criticism of the Democrats from the left - it’s relatively uncommon in the U$.

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      No I think you misunderstood. I agree with your idealogy. But to talk shit about liberals, when we are liberals who actually lean left (unlike Democrats who are moderates in disguise), well that’s just plain dumb. It makes you sound like a Trumpanzee.

      I’m a liberal, and I’m also a proud socialist. And so are you.

      Edit: Y’all are missing the point. There’s no reason for all this infighting. Communist, Socialist, Liberal, or whatever; we need to stop arguing over the differences and band together to stop the rise of Fascism. Some of these replies make me worried that a lot of you will vote for 3rd parties in the next election and effectively hand the votes over to Trump. Please don’t do that.

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        No, we’re not liberals, we’re communists. We talk shit about and dunk on liberals because we fundamentally disagree and take issue with the entire ideology. We take issue with being called liberals, because we’re not.

        Liberals have nothing to do with the left.

        You can’t be a liberal and a socialist at the same time, unless you’re talking about philistine and opportunist social democracy.

        Non-digetic screams just summarized this whole thing perfectly.

      • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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        Liberalism is not leftism. We must fight fascism and liberalism at the same time. Fascism is the mask off form of liberalism. When the ruling class has to stabilize capitalism by inflicting colonial tactics from the liberals on to the home land, on white people.