Leftist Infighting: A community dedicated to allowing leftists to vent their frustrations

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The purpose of this community is sort of a "work out your frustrations by letting it all out" where different leftist tendencies can vent their frustrations with one another and more assertively and directly challenge one another. Hostility is allowed, but any racist, fascist, or reactionary crap wont be tolerated, nor will explicit threats.

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I'm apparently a lib? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I'm not cool with genocide. Not cool with that at all. Even if they are landlords. I'm much more in favor of reeducation centers, personally. I'm against the death penalty on moral grounds. I believe that everyone deserves a second and third chance.

With that said, economically, I consider myself to be anarcho-communist or communalist or "left-communist" or whatever the fuck you want to call it.

But apparently all of that makes me a lib, and not welcome on the left? Is that correct?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Firstly, landlords are an economic class, not a race, genetic classification, or even religion. It's not genocide, literally, even if they were systematically killed. I'm not saying that to defend such an act, but to prevent false equivalence.

It's not an inherent aspect of a person, a person isn't irredeemable because they partake in capitalism. So killing someone only for being a landlord doesn't make sense.

However, they have a material interest in fighting against the revolution, just like the bourgeois. So, it is likely a huge amount won't be able to be 're-educated'. So it's easy for people to generalise from that and see re-educating parasites to be futile. I'd say it would ideally be approached case by case, if we have the luxury to do so. Remember, we won't have as much capacity for liberty in a class war. That's been tried, and exploited, in many country-level uprisings.

No, not everyone deserves a second chance. Merely being a landlord isn't enough to hit that irredeemable criteria, but many landlords will hit it.

Saying everyone deserves a second chance is liberal idealism, and its probably part of why you are being called a lib.