• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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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.