r/leftist

hi. a little about me

male. white-ish. 25, veteran, eco-anarchist

sometimes i wonder how many of yall are feds

so often i come on this subreddit just to see low-effort community splitting being posted, and in the comments. so much wasted energy on which subgroup isn't the right kind of leftist. or what kind of action opposing capitalism is better than another.

here's the situation we're in: we have little-to-no influence on the world at large. many of us are passionate, but lack direction. and we are all far from our dream of a better tomorrow.

as stated above, im an anarchist. i don't like/agree with socialists, communists, or really any other left wing group that believes in top-down government.

HOWEVER i would take ANY of them over what we have now. and if i hope to ever reach something even close to what i believe to be the best world for us all, i have to work with many of you to get as close to that as i can. anyone that thinks we can go from far-right capitalism to socialism without the support of everyone we can get is a fool. change on such a scale takes lots of time and more strength than any of us have alone.

i hate slavery. especially when it involves children. but if i oppose it alone i would be lucky to make so much as a dent.

our enemies work together. we need to do the same.

tl;dr stop policing each other over every little thing

Is it pointless engaging with Liberals?

I suspect some of us will caucus with the democrats or at least some democrats, but after some recent debates with Liberals, I'm finding them almost as hopeless as MAGA.

Should I/we just focus on primaries and ensuring the most left candidate is running on the democrat ticket, knowing Liberals will vote blue no matter who, or is it still worth engaging with them on policy?

In my recent experience they're incapable of having constructive discussions on how to move forward, and policy, and any criticism of Democrats wll be met with gaslighting about how much worst Republicans and Trump is (which is true).

I'm just frustrated a bit.

I know FDR is a far from perfect president (looking at you
Japanese internment), but I’m interested in learning about him. I feel like he was as close to a socialist as we’ve ever had in the White House. I want to read about FDR through the lens of a leftist. Please recommend something for me!

I’m curious as to what y’all think. They also believe the only path forward is the non-violent one. I couldn’t disagree more, but that’s not nearly as crazy to me as choosing to spend your time and energy on the hope of convincing nazis to give up on the ideology they’ve held tightly for decades. Instead of doing rhings like, volunteering at a soup kitchen, collecting clothes and food to donate to those in need, teaching your neighbors how to grow their own food, teaching your community gun safety and how to shoot.

It’s really annoying to me that some people such as Cenk and Ana(who I know aren’t really leftist but I just want to make this point are trying to rehabilitate peoples image such as Tucker and Majorie). Aoc said it best bigots are not welcome here period. I’m more than happy and will cheer these clowns tearing each other apart but there will be no allegiance. Fuck em. They’re the reason this country sucks so much and they need to be shamed as much as possible. Tucker pushed the great white replacement conspiracy theory and so much bigotry. Majorie Taylor Greene spread stupid Qanon conspiracy theories,spread so much hate about immigrants and the lgbt ,helped the January 6th terrorist ,etc. I know most of you get it but they aren’t welcome here none of those fuckers are unless they truly change one day and become good people which they never will.

I have been left-wing for several years, but I still need to understand certain things. I don’t usually trust Google because it gives me an AI overview I can’t trust. If y’all can explain: socialism, communism, Marxism, Leninism, and liberalism in simple terms, I’d be extremely grateful.

Edit: I’d also like to learn about anarchism

Hi all, I was wondering what marxists think about utilitarianism. it makes a reasonable good deal of sense to me that a marxist economy would at LEAST vastly vastly improve overall utility and happiness.

This Youtuber is small but felt similar to Wendigoon, I'm surprised Isaiah hasn't made a video on Fahrenheit 451 (If he has talked about it I am unaware LOL).

“This respect for and centering of the lumpenproles is not unique to Maoism (a term first coined in 1951 by Benjamin I. Schwartz). Many of the anarchist and libertarian socialist persuasion center the lumpenproletariat in their analysis of class struggle. Theorists such as Peter Kropotkin emphasized the revolutionary value and importance of the lumpenproletariat. Mao and these other theorists point out–correctly–that to be a skilled laborer in a trade union lends one a position of privilege, and that to exclude the lumpenproletariat from class struggle is elitist, prejudiced, and counterproductive. With them and with Mao I agree wholeheartedly on this point.”

hello guys, i am from russia, and in this place modern communism and leftists are connected of the strong national idea (for example national bolshevism). How do you think, can be those two ideas normally connected? i think this is problem for many country (china, turkey, east european countries). I really don`t know what i must think about this situation, because that can make communism more popular, but in the other hand this isn`t really left, is this?
sry for my bad english