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You're definitely painting with a broad brush. You can read Stallman's site and see for yourself that he is as left as they come (which is waaaay more left than
by bjourne 7y ago
You're definitely painting with a broad brush. You can read Stallman's site and see for yourself that he is as left as they come (which is waaaay more left than "liberal"). Insinuating that there is some grand left-wing cabal conspiring to oust the "true hackers" is wrong. Some people apparently think Stallman is unfit to lead GNU, other people think he is. There is no need to throw accusations of malice around.
- nwgt224 7y agoThere's no such thing as "the left". Historically leftists have always been purging each other (most famous example Stalin/Trotsky). Stallman is the wrong kind of leftist these days, because he is still based in the left/libertarian wing of the 1960s 1970s student revolts. Now you need to be a limousine leftist with Google or Facebook stock options.
- bitwize 7y agoWhen I say "left liberal", think Chomsky, not Hillary Clinton. Someone who thinks individual freedom is paramount, but who also thinks that corporations are just as bad as governments. The presently dominant current in the left prioritizes social justice over individual liberty, up to and including legal restrictions on freedom of speech under a constitution which expressly forbids such restriction (cf. the New York City ordinance forbidding the use of the term "illegal alien").