• @Kirbywithwhip1987
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    11 months ago

    Fr, I hated both for a long time even before I was started to be anarchist and then became based.

  • @Mzuark
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    1111 months ago

    I’ve come to the conclusion that “Both Sides Bad” really is a legitimate way of thinking. That being said, you have to believe in something so I’ve chosen Marxism.

    • @aleshasmiles
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      If you wanna get more materialist, the “both sides” concept as most people know it is flawed from the beginning. A communist could choose to see two sides like proletariat and bourgeoisie (which itself is true in a way, but still oversimplified) or like the thesis and antithesis of any given contradiction. But that’s not what most people mean. The common left versus right paradigm is just idealist bunk and ignores a vast amount of intricate contradictions, chiefly class struggle. You were correct to choose Marxism instead.

  • @Lemmy_Mouse
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    Conservatives are liberals. Liberalism is the ideology of capitalism, if they are in favor of capitalism they are liberals. Conservatism is a sub ideology within liberalism. The people the American media and academia call ‘liberals’ (the democrats) actually promote IDPOL and blanket neoliberalist policies. Neoliberalism is an implementation of capitalism, an economic reorganizing of it similar to social democracy in that sense. A more apt descriptor for the democrats as well as the republicans is neoliberals.

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    Some of these politicians advocate for libertarianism or neoconservatism or even social democracy but they all must conform to the economic status quo which supports the class they serve (the bourgeoisie) which is neoliberalism. Even the edgier ones like Trump as seen in action, or Bernie if allowed into office, would have to conform to these interests or be purged.

    • @xenautika
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      1111 months ago

      i just tell conservatives they’re liberal and refuse to elaborate

    • QueerCommie
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      511 months ago

      Libertarianism and neoconservatism are basically just neoliberalism too. (Socdem is different, but there is no real movement toward such, so it doesn’t matter who claims it). Libertarianism is just neoliberalism before the Kochs realized they could have their ideology right in the mainstream instead of some third party. neoconservativism is basically neoliberalism ‘s foreign policy, but mostly when republicans do it. (Bush was called a neocon for invading Iraq and so on while Obama didn’t get such a label even though he continued those policies).

      • @Lemmy_Mouse
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        211 months ago

        “Libertarianism and neoconservatism are basically just neoliberalism too.”

        Yes they were both created after the advent and implementation of neoliberalism, however I could see libertarianism spreading to classical liberalism too, especially considering the resurgence of classical liberalism is within Russia and their cozy nature with the conservative collective here in the states.

  • JoeMarx 193
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    711 months ago

    Damn, I already hated libs even before my transition to communism.

    • Comrade Ben
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      411 months ago

      We’re you left wing or right wing I didn’t libs were trash until I became communist

      • JoeMarx 193
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        411 months ago

        I was a nazbol during that time.

        • Comrade Ben
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          311 months ago

          So you were a fascist or Nazi communist

          • JoeMarx 193
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            511 months ago

            A mix of US-conservative social views and pro-socialist economic views.

            • Comrade Ben
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              511 months ago

              I’m glad you no longer have those beliefs

              • JoeMarx 193
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                511 months ago

                Yep, as I said before: I shifted leftward after conservative yt’ers I followed collabed with PragerU.

                • relay
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                  711 months ago

                  LOL. Almost as if they are part of a dangerous information silo.

              • QueerCommie
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                411 months ago

                MLG is using it how I’d usually use it, but you’re technically right that NazBol just means socialist economic planning, but with opposition to proletarian internationalism.

                • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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                  111 months ago

                  It refers historically to a very real phenonmenon in Russia during the 1990s.