I love these three socialist lemmies. So I’m posting this here. Not sure how well or how mixed a reception this will get here. Not sure if the right place to post it. Plausibly shall step on some toes (with the bottommost instance of “not my left”) a bit. And I imagine there may be some responses nitpicking that 3 of the "not my left"s are more left than “my left” ~ to which I say, misses the point. Anyhoo… enjoy, or don’t. I strive to protect your freedom to receive things however you wish. Love that bitch called interpretation. ;D But I do hope it sparks some interesting thought, discussion, and maybe even is a useful tool. At the very least, it’ll help (a bit) to explain what I mean when I keep saying “not my left”, to those who misrepresent the authoritarian left as “the left”, or even really really misrepresent by calling the nowadays so-called “liberal” (left side of authoritarian right) as “the left”.
[Edit [Edit, suppose I’ll make this its own reply]: Oh, and… anti-solidarity? I’m all for helping everybody. I’m not falling for that psyop that I must be in solidarity with other philosophies. I was already never much a fan of the word “solidarity” (especially because of its etymology, and ease of misinterpretation by the uninitiated, itself creating a sort of in-group and out-group divide [Orwellian much?], not readily understood on first hearing as best intended, more suggestive of static crippling suffocating immobility, and thus easily usurped in service of forked tongues insidiously dividing and conquering). And then to see how you’ve just used it, further corroborates my point about it, and expands my dislike, seeing it used so.]
and there we have it. The greatest threat to all leftist thought is capitalism, and to be willing to stand against it in solidarity is what is needed before we devolve into attacking other leftists. Funny also that you’re willing to question anyones leftiness if you don’t agree to their flavor.
Fun cherry picking portions to pervert and misrepresent the original meaning by stripping the rest of it, losing more than context, and inverting the meaning, doubling down on fallacy. Fun misrepresentation putting words in my mouth and asserting what my will is, that’s completely unfounded and untrue. Way to miss the point. Way to go off half-cocked and pointing fingers, projecting, oblivious to the three fingers pointing back, doing the very thing in the accusation. I merely said “not my left”. I didn’t do and would not do what you you insist I’m doing, like you’re doing. Are we not allowed to have a particular perspective? Seems implausible. Like we’re to have it all be our left… from kropotkin to stalin to half the purple party to hitler to marx, all the same? No. That’s still not my left. Any of that not being my left does not mean I’m questioning anyone’s leftness for not agreeing with my leftness. Especially where my leftness is. How would that be a tenable internally consistent logic to have such an authoritarian imposition from such a libertarian left position? See?
Also, methinks you may have typo’d a bit… hard to parse:
Damn I’m amazed I missed you listing Hitler as a leftist. Good luck with that.
B i t t e w a s ?!Or half the purple party?
Still missing the point about “not my left & not even left”?
Did you miss me saying “No.” after that too? Like, the point being made there, is that’s not my list. Never encountered those who believe the Nazi party propaganda mislabel and really believe it’s “socialist”? Lucky you.
{the replies that make me laugh just keep coming. XD}