I’m not sure if this question makes sense, but as someone fairly new to leftism, it seems a lot of time that far leftists and especially communists often don’t like non-leftists in any way and don’t want to interact with them, but that’s just what I’ve seen on the internet and I have no idea how it is in terms of real life friendships. I personally don’t know any other confirmed hard-line leftists in real life (I don’t know a lot of real life people at all TBH because I’m pretty introverted and suffer from social anxiety). What do you think? Do you have friends that are non-leftists and/or liberals? Should we?
Yeah, it’s unavoidable given that it’s the dominant ideology. My lib friends are generally supportive of the ideas I espouse but still hold on to the idea that the US generally acts for the greater good. I even have a friend who’s anti-CPC (from what I can gather, her father was so emotionally scarred after the Cultural Revolution that he just beat her and her mother daily for 2 decades until he killed himself. No, they weren’t landlords or capitalists, the mother was even a Red Guard). She’s also supportive of the mutual aid work I do