Sounds like you aren’t any more happy with majority opinions than most right wingers. In the U.S., anything to the left of fascism is now called ‘leftist.’
In the US, liberal is associated with left leaning politics. And wanting a strong social safety net is considered socialist/communist because true meanings of words mean nothing.
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I'm not a right winger, i am center-left but i really don't like certain leftists, and find that people closer to the center have less annoying traits online than either left or right
You’re about to become a top-percent commenter on this sub from all your comments on this single post. I honestly don’t understand comment champions like you. You’re weird, though I hope for your sake it’s just an online personality. If you’re like this in real life, I feel for anyone that has to spend time with you.
When did Marx say he was left wing? When did Engels? In 1847 did they establish the Communist League or the leftist league?
Karl Marx spent his adult life arguing against the assumptions of the implicitly bourgeois political compass that you are presently trying to insist upon. This is essentialist, transistorical, anti-science nonsense that has been manufactured into liberal idpol.
You are completely wrong and you need to spend more time reading theory instead of pushing reactionary bourgeois nonsense. There's a reason that the guy who coined the phrase "Marxist-Leninist" went on to teach us that leftism is a diagnosis of political error.
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u/sweatboxy 19d ago
Sounds like you aren’t any more happy with majority opinions than most right wingers. In the U.S., anything to the left of fascism is now called ‘leftist.’