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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am very very very left wing, BUT I can get really annoyed with a lot of those "on my side" advocating for the most idealist of all idealism, as if it's a contest. Feels like a competition of "who's the bestest and mostest leftist of all". You scare people away and - not justifying it - but I get why some people get upset with "the left" because of this...

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I am very very very left wing, but

Everytime I see someone say this I know without a shadow of a doubt that they're a centrist liberal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Lmao this thread is full of "very/hard far left" who then present very cold for a far left takes or are straight out libs.

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

wrong, I support the green party (multi-party system, you should try it)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So, Social Democrat. I wouldn't call that "left wing," in that it isn't a Socialist platform. It would be "left" in comparison to the status quo, but not enough to be "very very very left wing."

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It would be if you'd compare their program to that of the other left parties here

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

As I said, left of the status quo, but not on the left.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Lol, thanks for proving my point

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

no, we have another party for that in Belgium (Vooruit). Groen has a leftist program

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Groen are center left liberals.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

With a program that's more leftist than the actual left party, yes

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh? Tell me more about their program to overthrow the liberal state and wrestle control of the means of production away from the owning class.