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The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think
(www.nytimes.com)
Oh yes? So is climate catastrophy.
It's coming faster than you think. And i think it's coming very fucking slow. Unlike the climate catastrophy
Reminds me of Flight of the Conchords:
“In the future there is no more unethical treatment of elephants.”
“Well, there are no more elephants.”
“But still, it is good.”
I hope so. This shit is infuriating.
good. let's keep pushing, we need to do more
um, imma call bullshit, because it's not coming fast enough, of course it's NYT, the left wing of Wall Street right ther
If you think the New York Times is left wing, I can only assume you own the entire Ayn Rand library.
you should have read the rest of the sentence, I said "the left wing of Wall Street" I'm saying it's capitalist propaganda
i bet you've just been sitting on the line huh?
Even with you spelling it out, it sounds like absolute nonsense. If there was a leftist on Wall Street they'd be crucified on the horns of the golden bull.
okay so, just like in spatial terms, left and right are relative, right? There's no objective left or right, there is no left or right side of the planet earth, right?
So for example there is a left of the Democratic Party, like AOC, but they are only left relative to the rest of the Party. So what is meant by left wing of Wall Street are the relative left leaning capitalists, i.e. bourgeois liberals
Left and right are also relative historically, what may be considered far to the left or right at one point and history may later on be reversed.
If you want to know, there's an objective difference. It's the presence of a hierarchy. Centrists support a hierarchy that's either voluntary or mildly coercive. Justifications for violent enforcement become more severe the farther you go to the right. Leftism is cooperative and anti-hierarchy.
you seem like a nice person, i get that you misunderstood what i said at first. now you're really committing to arguing with me
Leftism is cooperative and anti-hierarchy
well, no not really, that's anarchism, which is historically a small part of leftism, sometimes there are no anarchists in a leftist movement.
"Leftism" historically has all kinds of hierarchies, Marx, Lenin, Castro, all very hierarchical. You can say they are not real Leftists. Personally I would not say that Marxists Aren't Leftists, that seems incorrect to me. I have lots of disagreements with Marxists but they are part of "the Left" whether we like it or not.
The Jacobins, who were the first group of people to be called "Leftists", were ultra hierarchical and dictatorial. There's a funny story about the Origin of the terms 'left' and 'right wing': during the french revolution the National Assembly would meet in this big room, the allied delegates would naturally sit together. Some sat on the Left side, others sat on the Right side. That's it, that's the the origin, there's no innate essence to leftism, it's certainly not some trans historical entity.
Those hierarchies you described and attributed to leftism were authoritarian. They were supported and maintained by violence. They weren't leftist, you were just raised to believe they are by your government, which itself has been approaching total fascism your entire life.
You should try understanding where the other person is coming from before accusing them of being brainwashed by their government.
Have you ever looked at the so-called Political Compass? There's a 'left to right' axis and an 'authoritarian to libertarian' axis https://www.politicalcompass.org/ So you can be authoritarian and leftist according to them (there is a hidden bias in the test, towards libertarian socialism)
I'm not even saying that, I'm coming at this from more of a 'post-left anarchist' perspective, that there is no 'leftism' as such but what is left or right is a relative historical development, so otherwise contradictory movements end up being lumped together as 'leftists' by historical accident, but they still end up influencing each other, so for example marxism has historically influenced anarchism and vise versa.
You're saying there is some ahistorical 'true' leftism that's objective and indistinguishable from anarchism. You can also just say "anarchism is cool" and I would agree with you and we can not have this pointless argument. see also no true scotsman fallacy
The political compass is skewed. The far right is always authoritarian and the far left is always anarchic. The middle is bargaining, the realm of confusion and many masters. I agree that right and left are mere terms of convenience. Politics are delusion. The real spectrum is gnosis (left) versus ignorance (right).
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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