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Leftist infighting is a legendary meme, that is true. I’m more considering ‘the left’ as the bulk of the left: anything between neoliberal and social Democrat.
by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Leftist infighting is a legendary meme, that is true.
I’m more considering ‘the left’ as the bulk of the left: anything between neoliberal and social Democrat.
Similarly, when I say the right I mean anything between neoliberal and national conservative.
Though I’d consider national conservatives to be too right wing for my tastes (since I skew left) just as socdems are too left wing for conservative tastes.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> I’m more considering ‘the left’ as the bulk of the left: anything between neoliberal and social Democrat. That's center-right (neoliberal) to center-left (social democrat), not the “bulk of the left”.
- gunfighthacksaw 5y agoNeoliberal includes both Tony Blair on the left and Thatcher on the right. Trudeau sits between them in the (201X-202X) dead centre. Tony Blair was more right economically than the old guard of labour (who I would consider squarely left wing) but it was balanced out by his social and welfare policies. It’s just that pre WW1 the centre was to the right of now (classical liberalism) and post WW2 the centre was to the left of now (welfare statism). 200 years ago liberals were leftists and reactionaries were quite ordinary.