I love that for a certain type of leftist they will grind the axes of 2016 and 2020 for the rest of their lives, and consider it some sort of steadfast principle on which to do nothing worthwhile in politics ever again
I feel like half the online beefing between USian liberals and leftists is because in this country there is no agreement about what these words mean
Like as a non full time political person I don’t even know what to call myself anymore
I think the objectively hilarious bit about these types is that they exude the exact same type of American chauvinism that drives MAGA. The world is enlightened, Europe is perfect and has a beautiful diversity of political thought where liberals are in neat boxes, and the US is the Great Satan.
How is someone unironically citing Rosa Luxembourg in 2025. If all of history is fair play let's talk about how liberals under Louis XVI were far left QED.
They love to use Rosa Luxembourg to tar liberals in another country almost 100 years later, but furiously reject anyone using Thalmann as an example of how leftists treating liberals as the real enemy just empowers conservatives.
"When one of us, anywhere, is beaten to death and dumped in the Landwehr Canal, all of us are beaten to death and dumped in the Landwehr Canal" is probably too long to fit on a t-shirt anyways.
Can't have a sustainable socialist economic order without protected individual rights and something resembling representative democracy; can't have a sustainable democratic political order without broad-based economic equality and worker power.
Socialism without democracy simply morphs into a bureaucratic authoritarian regime; democracy without socialism eventually implodes, as we're currently witnessing.
It's also a fools errand to map US politics onto other countries. The LDP in Japan is by any objective metrics a right wing nationalist party but it also supports robust public services and a social safety net
Conservatism and liberalism meaning the same thing only really came about in the 70s when in the English speaking world old school paternalistic conservatives kept losing.
Japan (and Korea) is corporatist. Posing as Liberal.
Comments
Thinking that you're smart because you like having the boot on your throat.
I'm fine. I'm not the one currently under attack.
I'm fighting for people worse off than me to not die. What the fuck are you doing?
Like as a non full time political person I don’t even know what to call myself anymore
hes just lying
people: fuck off, psycho
you: stupid lefties dont want a coalition 😤
/s
yes
you have to get in your knees, with the forehead against the floor, and apology for it if you want a "coalition"
im not even joking
What do you want? For us to resurrect Friedrich Ebert to kiss your feet?
Japan (and Korea) is corporatist. Posing as Liberal.