• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    And you fell for it.

    I’ve got a friend who is in jail right now because she chained herself to the front of an oil refinery, protesting fossil fuel consumption. That’s the very definition of “far left”. She put her ideology on her sleeve and risked her life for her beliefs in the hope that she could enact revolutionary change.

    Anarchists and communists aren’t “far left.” They are simply left.

    Slapping a name-tag on your beliefs isn’t what’s at issue here. Illegalism is what’s at issue. Once you are so passionate about your understanding of the world that you’ll put your health and safety and your very life on the line to live out your values, you’re going outside the bounds of what centrists can stomach.

    Miep Gies was a member of the far-left. Paul Watson is a member of the far-left. Khymani James is a member of the far-left. Steven Donziger is a member of the far-left. Chris Smalls is a member of the far-left.

    They’re doing so much more than fucking posting.

    You are either left or you are not.

    You can claim to know all the theory. But there’s a yawning void between theory and praxis.

    • masquenox@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      That’s the very definition of “far left".

      No. It isn’t.

      Once you are so passionate about your understanding of the world

      According to your silly understanding of it, every mass-shooter in history was also “far left.”

      Again. There is no such thing as a “far left.”

      It doesn’t matter how many overly-dramatic and contrived justifications you make for it. It still remains an invention of liberal media and absolutely nothing else.