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"Far left"
"Tankie"
Choose one
The tankies describe themselves as such.
To not be associated with them, more actual far-left adherents need to actively disavow the tankies.
Tankies:
Edit: actually i think i wouldn't put them exactly in that X axis position, i am sleepy so ain't gonna try to understand well their exact position so that's good enough
Sorry, that doesn't play into the both-sides false-equivalency rhetoric. Please delete this comment.
You can be left and authoritarian. At least outside of the US you can, in America all politics get squashed into a single binary choice, so it seems weird.
You can also be left and be right, and dumb and wise, and black and white, all simultaneously! Up is down, back is forwards, authoritarian is left!
No, left is against hierarchy
Schrödinger's political chessboard
It's not a binary. I'm against hierarchal class structures but I still think we need specialists making rules about shit like environmental protection.
No, left is socialist (in the broad sense, opposed to individualism)
* Anarchism has entered the chat*
Yea just gonna full sail disagree with you on this claim.
Many types of anarchism fit under the socialist umbrella
Yes, I agree, which would disagree with the other comment's point that socialism inherently opposes individualism.
As much as i know, anarchy is not indivualist since the entire point of anarchism should be that the community works togheter to do stuff
While respecting the rights and autonomy of the individual. It is entirely about respecting individual freedom while also encouraging work together as a community.
Interesting. Where/when are they not opposed?
Edit: Noting that I didn't mean that they are mutually exclusive outside of social structure.. You can take individual actions in a socialist society. The question is just around which is the core principle of the organisation of society.
Edit 2: to me anarchy isn't inherently individualistic, it is just opposed to power-over social structures. You can have a voluntary socialism. Look at Chiapas, for instance.
I thought libertarians were against hierarchy
Tankies are what happens when you go all the way left and all the way up into Authoritarianship
end up being right wing. authoritarian in nature is often conservative leaning.
Right wing and left wing are economic labels communism and capatalism. Right wing people tend to cluster towards the authoritarian side of the authority and liberty scale but so do left wingers.
Yeah but right wing in tankie states were called the nomenclature, the old guard