I've been distancing myself from this terminology for some time now and just referring to myself as a communist or nothing at all when people talk politics.
I'm noticing the #woke intersection "left" wholly embraces this kind of vague terminology that places their views firmly on a boundary line between "edgy liberalism" and "class struggle."
This is nothing new I'm saying but I've certainly noticed a lot of feminists and #BLM types that hitch on to Marxism and are really good at LARP'ing as revolutionaries. For me, I guess I stopped using "left" because I don't give a fuck about these single issue movements.
As I've aged, I feel like anti-racism, feminism, gay rights, etc., these are all worthless if they don't put class first and I could give a shit less. I've noticed if you identity as a "leftist" they automatically lump you in with these asshats that say and do the dumbest things: anti-gun, vegan, pacifist, irreverent white guilt, etc.
Pretty much none of that describes me and I feel like none of that stuff has anything to do with communism.
What say you? How do you feel about the term "leftist" and do you see it as an amenable label?
I call myself stalinist in front of people who ask my position. Obviously in front of other leftist I explain that I'm an ML and stalinism is a Trotskyite meme, but irl to avoid the "bernie supporter" "jewish puppet" "liberal" "faggot trans lover" "crusty fucker" I always call myself stalinist, this way I also show my extremism without too many explainations.
Jace Robinson
I tend to just say socialist, in the UK it means a Corbyn supporter instead of gulturil marksisgm stuff. I find 'RedLeft' a useful term to, distinguishes demsoc and socdem from liberalism.
Jeremiah Nelson
you're fucking dumb even the people whomst you're pointing your finger at wouldn't call themselves leftists if you asked them. youre just embarrassed by the anti-left propaganda coming from the right
you got memed on
James Flores
no man, i didn't get memed on at all, lmao.
are you serious? go out to a protest, these people are definitely real, stop burying your fucking head in the sand dude. it is comical that people like you claim these types don't exist, but every 'anti racism' event, they are out there in full force willing to shout down class struggle types as 'brocialist' and 'manarchist'.
i literally did not take your reply seriously because it's just so obviously false.
even more so – consider that shit like 'soyboy' wouldn't be a meme if it weren't so common.
the average leftist in America/ first world is edgy red liberal college vegans, not steel workers in factories, not auto workers, not garbage men, not military/militia men… stop burying your head in the sand
Hudson Morgan
They do, and that's a problem.
Worse yet, many of those anti-communist, radlib hilldog voters dare call themselves socialists. This is why we need purges.
face it retard you're just internalizing all the shit you see on Zig Forums about leftists. your OP image could literally just be a Zig Forums meme with out the "neo-leftist starter pack" shit
You wouldn't give a single fuck about the left as a label if you didn't take these dumb anti-left memes so seriously. Everything about the people you see at protest doesn't mean shit, you didn't say anything about that in the OP, you only said the "left" umbrella is embarrassing to you.
Owen Collins
This is Zig Forums 101 tbh, but that pic you posted is trash made by some classcuck any sensible communist distances themselves from broader "leftism"
Let's not give reactionaries too much credit, self-identified "leftists" do enough damage to communism by themselves. We should reject leftism as it means seeing ourselves in the same boat as socdems, liberals and left-wing capitalists of all stripes.
I unironically believe liberals are our #1 threat and deserve purging
