• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    Leftists barely agree with each other, let alone anybody elsewhere on the political spectrum. You aren’t entirely wrong, though - there is a tendency to say that anything good is leftist and anything bad is right-wing, but right-wingers also do the same (see how anything they don’t like is either woke or communist, or both)

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      but right wingers are mostly homogeneous in thier beliefs, with the hefty help of the propaganda MSMs and financial backing. left doesnt have a propaganda machine promoting “left”, thats why there isnt any unified belief amongst all left leaning people.

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      Yeah there is a massive range of disagreement under the umbrella term “leftists”. Marxist, Marxist-Leninist, Trotskyist, Maoist, Communization theory, Anarcho-communist, Eco-anarchist, Christian anarchist, etc. etc.

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        These are all largely arguments over organizing a working class majority in control of it’s own lands and capital. None in these groups objects to the central thesis of worker self-government.

        By contrast, centrist/right groups favor narrow hierarchies of elite oligarchs, them bicker over exactly which one of their kingpins should get the big chair.

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      So, most people make generalizations based on personal biases? And its human nature tendency to have “in-groups” and “out-groups”? That simple though?

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      And anything that doesn’t involve a fencepost tickling their prostate is a sin to centrists.

      Their g-spot is pretty far to the right though.

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        Yes, a lot of self-proclaimed centrists are rather right-wing but like to picture themselevs as occupying the middle of the bell curve. See also their use of the term “common sense” when they want to feel like their view is the majority one despite that not being supported by statistics.