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Canada’s ‘New Red Scare’ is profoundly undemocratic (canadiandimension.com)
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[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Using the left and right spectrum is idiotic and not indicative of how extreme an ideology is. It’s like… 6th grade understanding of the nuances and philosophy of political, economic, and social issues and was created to make capitalism seem like a reasonable centrist position.

[-] DarthJon@lemmy.world -4 points 4 weeks ago

Actually, it sounds more like you're dismissing a standard political spectrum model to make communism sound less extreme than it is. Would you feel better if I used the word 'radical' rather than 'extreme'?

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 4 weeks ago

So extreme and radical to you are just “the further away an ideology is from our current form of capitalism, the more extreme it is” then?

[-] DarthJon@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago

No, extreme is the further away an ideology is from centrist/moderate ideologies. At one end of the spectrum is fascism, at the other is communism.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

And who gets to dictate what defines a centrist or moderate ideology?

[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

Moderate communists.

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