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They are leftists. The woke ideology has a clear geneaology to Marx. Of course, they are not economic class focused leftists by any stretch of the imagination -
by soundnote 4y ago
They are leftists. The woke ideology has a clear geneaology to Marx. Of course, they are not economic class focused leftists by any stretch of the imagination - bourgeoisie champagne socialists who've re-engineered the Marxian thinking style to focus on social identities, which makes it really easy to purport to care for the oppressed. It's very high quality champagne socialism.
But it's still leftist in origin and in ideology. Saying the modern wokified U.S. Left isn't leftist is just a No True Scotsman argument. Leftism and rightism are not narrow, specific things, they're more like inchoate moral intuitions that are given more concrete form by ideology and realpolitik. Individual leftist or rightist ideologies are often contradictory with each other. But the underlying sentiment is usually still recognizable as one or the other.
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- socialismisok 4y agoDemocrats are not a left party. They are squarely center, maybe even center right. As someone who is a communist, the Dems have nothing to do with Marx, and they are about as capitalist as they come.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoEven the formally communist country of china semes to be capitalist in truth. To the point where they will likely overtake the US as the richest country in the world.
- socialismisok 4y agoI think that's widely accepted, yeah. Deng Xiaoping changed a bunch of stuff that kept a lot of the authoritarianism but added capitalism.
- md2020 4y agoNobody said the causes the foundation is funneling money to are Democrat causes, though. They’re something entirely different.
- socialismisok 4y agoTwo comments above there was a comment about Democrats. The response was they are leftist.