• HubertManne@piefed.social
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    14 days ago

    Its mostly because of folks like this throwing it around like its an insult. I don’t mind being actual center even though im a bit left of and I don’t care that our right wing determine im ultra mega super communist alpha X the next generation. I mean im more real center than left I would say in a sane scale.

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      14 days ago

      Looking at your post history, you’re def ultra mega super commie by US standards. Joke aside, the left-right spectrum is a bit of a sham. I like to think of it as up-down in terms of class. Once mfker sees things in terms of class and that most of us are working class even if we don’t make min wage, eyes get wide open. Most of the ideas for how to help our class get more of what we produce historically come from figures who have been somewhere on the left side of the left-right spectrum. However people from different parts of the spectrum have picked and chosen from those ideas, and the spectrum itself is a moving target. Then you have people who make caricatures of the spectrum in order to slander others… But that’s much more difficult to do with class, because class isn’t based on ideas. It just is the material reality and all we need to figure it out is to look at it.