• QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    “The left is (at the very least) liberals and socialists and some kinds of anarchists,”

    This is a VERY Eurocentric perspective. What constitutes progressive/left views changes culture to culture.

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      12 hours ago

      This is a VERY Eurocentric perspective

      Oh bullshit, there are and have been American anarchists and socialists who have worked with and sometimes worked against American liberals going back to at least the early 20th century. Like, just to grab the most obvious example, Frances Perkins was a member of the freakin Socialist Party of America for years before she joined FDRs cabinet as labor secretary and did a bunch of the New Deal stuff liberals pat themselves on the back for now.

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        12 hours ago

        No it is because there are more nations than what comprises the West. Your definition would not make any sense in one of the dozens of authoritarian nations that are still trying to determine IF human rights exist.

        The POV you are advocating suggests every society faces the same struggles and questions and that isn’t true.

        Given how much historical evil can be tied to Eurocentrism it us important to stomp it out when you see it.