• EhList@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Jacobin is left of center only in countries that have no right wing at all. Don’t make the Eurocentric mistake in presuming the binary Europeans use is the only one or the correct one to apply everywhere.

    Jacobin is seen as very poor quality source in the social science circles I studied in.

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      1 year ago

      Jacobin, from the US, is in a country with no right wing? The US is only right wing, Democrats being the center right and Republicans being the fascist right.

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        1 year ago

        That is only if you are using a Western European binary. There is no reason to do that unless you are oddly racist (unlikely), poorly educated in political philosophy, or incredibly eurocentric.

        Many nations are authoritarian and the liberal/authoritarian binary really us the big binary as it covers all ideologies not the socialist/capitalist one that Europe uses that rules out almost every form of government that is not a democracy.

        Regardless Jacobin is trash. They are so low quality that they had an author cite their own opinion article as a source for an article they wrote. That’s the equivalent of saying “because I said so”