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Regressive left is what happens when you brainwash enough people with extreme socialist philosophy (cough Karl Marx cough), fact-free nonsense such as "the patr
by mindcrash 10y ago
Regressive left is what happens when you brainwash enough people with extreme socialist philosophy (cough Karl Marx cough), fact-free nonsense such as "the patriarchy" and "female wage gap", and outright lies through social science departments at universities.
In fact, you could call the ideology these people believe in "neo-Marxism" or "cultural Marxism". And this is no understatement: if you love everything the West has to offer now like freedom of speech, freedom of expression, democracy, and capitalism while the ideas of regressives at first sight might look super attractive and they themselves might at first look super friendly, they are not your friends but your adversaries. Because instead of fixing the issues Western civilization has today within the system, they want to figuratively burn it down to the ground and start over, with a system based on Marxist philosophy where everyone is so equal that even when you are suspected of wrongthink you become a candidate for Marxist style reeducation or worse.
History also has factually shown several attempts to start over with a new, "better" system and all had gigantic miserable repercussions. And do not let them fool you into believing they are doing the "right thing" and "this time it will be different". There is a long list of people who thought the same thing and every single time things indeed became different, but worse.
- mindcrash 10y agoSmall addendum: while we can miss the far left and far right like a sore toothache the moderate left and right are not really enemies, they are intellectual counterparts and they need each other. To make actual progress happen for everyone you do not need a "winner", but you need a well thought out inclusive vision which measures up to facts. Or to make things more concrete: You do not only need the fast young smart startup whizkid entrepreneur kicking a ton of interesting ideas around (the "moderate left") but also the old and wise manager (the "moderate right") who takes these ideas and measures them up based on experience (historical knowledge)