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      It’s coming faster than you think. And i think it’s coming very fucking slow. Unlike the climate catastrophy

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    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.”

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    um, imma call bullshit, because it’s not coming fast enough, of course it’s NYT, the left wing of Wall Street right ther

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        you should have read the rest of the sentence, I said “the left wing of Wall Street” I’m saying it’s capitalist propaganda

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  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.