Comment by skinnymuch

Sorry this got a bit long

I was doing hypotheticals. Not specifically talking about your ex.

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You’re right about my definition. The other addition is being against unjustifiable hierarchies (yes some will say Cuban regime is unjustifiable but I disagree and it’s not the same as capitalists) and being critical of capitalism.

That aligns with the French Revolution and left wing being progressive tho obviously that was a different stage of societal development and times.

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“She happens to find the left of the Overton Window to be too right wing.”

Yes that’s what a lot of people say. Ultras, left coms, anarchists etc.

I feel similar to all of you except for me I find all these people to primarily be chauvinists masking that behind pretending to be too left for the left.

I have my own personal criteria for “true” left-wing which is how you are thinking of people not in your in-group. European fascists historically want to help the workers of the in-group people they care about.

It’s why I despise Europe. Always going on about social democracy being so left-wing and how Europe is so left wing compared to America as if European fascism doesn’t want to help their own too.

I will never put worth into someone helping their own in-group. To me it matters if you care about the global south if you’re a westerner or European. And most western leftists and European leftists don’t really care.