• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    By American standards, the Stop Cop City people are a ‘far left’ group;

    That’s not “far left.” That’s just plain old bog-standard left - whether in the US or anywhere else.

    action against Stop Cop City has been pretty brutal.

    Again… just common-or-garden variety treatment the left has always received from the forces of the status quo - nothing “far left” about it.

    There’s no such thing as a “far left” - and it’s critical that we push back on these kinds of propagandistic framing devices liberals love to use to demonize the left and provide cover for the right. I don’t think leftists realize how powerful and dangerous this basic type of propaganda can be.

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      4 months ago

      That’s why I qualified it as far-left by American standards.

      We’ve had far-left in the past, but student terrorist movements were largely left behind in the 70s.

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        4 months ago

        but student terrorist movements were largely left behind in the 70s

        The left has never left the use of force in the past - it is as available to us today, and as thoroughly justified, as it was in the 70’s… 1570s, 1870s or 2070s.

        The willingness to use force doesn’t distinguish between a left and a (supposed) “far left” - the left is not a mirror of the right, and there is no leftist equivalent to a far right (which is purely distinguished by it’s proximity to, willingness to control and/or operate the state machinery of violence).

        It’s not about spots on a silly “political compass” infographic and never has been.