I don’t mind the posts and the communities, but so many of the users are insufferable.

They poison the well for any cool person who might be registered there.

  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    The USSR rivals the US, Japan and Germany for the most imperialist state in the past 100 years, so no, leftists are not anti-imperialist by default, that’s closer to liberals. Leftists are anti-capitalist by default.

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      Then maybe my understanding of “leftism” as a term is wrong. Just a little question, what political party would you consider “liberal”?

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        In the US? None, but the Libertarians probably come closest.

        The US is built on imperialism so of course no party is anti-imperialist, being anti-government is as close as you can get.

        Within Europe there are some parties that lean more anti-imperialist, generally green and liberal parties, but the traditional major conservative and leftist parties rarely are.